Deploy MinIO Through GKE

Prerequisites

Purchase MinIO Object Storage from the marketplace

Additionally:

  • gcloud
  • kubectl
  • Select the default project gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

1.Create a GKE Cluster

Update the region and run the following command, for example --region=us-central1. This will create a cluster with 4 nodes in each zone of the region.

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gcloud container clusters create minio-cluster \
    --region=REGION \
    --num-nodes=4 \
    --machine-type=n2-standard-32

Configure kubectl to use minio-cluster

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gcloud container clusters get-credentials minio-cluster --region=REGION

2.Deploy MinIO Object Storage

  • Go to the Marketplace and click on CONFIGURE
  • Select the cluster minio-cluster created from the previous step
  • Fill out the details and click on DEPLOY

3.Get the JWT to login to Operator UI

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kubectl -n minio-operator  get secret $(kubectl -n minio-operator get serviceaccount console-sa -o jsonpath="{.secrets[0].name}") -o jsonpath="{.data.token}" | base64 --decode

4.Port Forward into Operator UI

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kubectl -n minio-operator port-forward svc/console 9090

5.Create a MinIO Tenant

Go to http://localhost:9090, enter the JWT from the previous step and create a tenant.

6.Sign up for MinIO Subscription Network

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