MinIO Academy

MinIO Academy brings together training, documentation, and hands-on resources in one place with role specific content for administrators, developers, data engineers, and partners. Get up and running on AIStor quickly through the Quick Start Program, go deep with the MinIO Learning Subscription, or onboard as a MinIO partner.

One Academy, Three Programs.

Quick Start Program

Access MinIO Learning Academy Quick Start, including guided deployment training, hands-on labs, and an AIStor Free license.

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Learning Subscription

Unlock the full library of learning content including  videos, hands on labs, engineer support, and an exam voucher for the MinIO Certified Administrator credential.

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Partner Enablement

Tailored for MinIO partners, this program equips you to position, size, architect, and deliver AIStor solutions with confidence.

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The Quick Start Program

New to MinIO AIStor? Start here. Quick Start gets you started with AIStor at no cost with an AIStor Free license plus onboarding videos, tutorials, and guides. You will learn core administration, how to use AIStor SDKs, and how to plan for AI at enterprise scale. Begin learning and building with confidence now.
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MinIO Learning Subscription

The MinIO AIStor Learning Subscription includes more than 200 videos covering every aspect of MinIO AIStor administration and development. It also provides dozens of hands-on labs, access to a MinIO AIStor trial license, expert support, exam prep resources, and a voucher for the MinIO Certified Administrator exam.

200+ Videos

Expert-led, subtitled videos, updated monthly

Hands-on Labs

Docker-based setup for real world practice

60 Day Trial

Enterprise trial license, refreshed as needed.

Certification Voucher

MinIO Certified Administrator Practitioner exam voucher included.

Engineer Support

Curriculum engineer support answers typically within one business day

Role-Based

Learning paths for developers and enterprise admin

MinIO Academy: Learning Paths

Explore the courses and certification exam offered through MinIO Training.

The Course for Production Success with MinIO

MinIO Enterprise Administration I: Management, Replication and Security Essentials (MN116). Everything you need to know to ensure production success with your MinIO deployment as an administrator of scalable, performant data infrastructure.

Developer Learning Path

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Kubernetes Learning Path

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AIStor Deployment (Quick Start)
AI Learning Path
Administration Learning Path
Developer Learning Path
Kubernetes Learning Path

AIStor Deployment

A guided Day 1 experience to get AIStor running using Docker, included with your no-cost Quick Start trial and Learning Academy access. Learn core administration, hands-on labs, and baseline skills before progressing to deeper administration and certification paths.

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How and Why AI Runs on Object Storage

Learn best practices to design a scalable architecture for Artificial Intelligence (AI)  workloads and an introduction to building AI pipelines with MinIO AIStor.

Summary

This course provides a foundation of best practices that will lead to better decision making of how to design, deploy, and scale enterprise AI initiatives

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The Course for Production Success with MinIO

MinIO Enterprise Administration I: Management, Replication and Security Essentials (MN116). Everything you need to know to ensure production success with your MinIO deployment as an administrator of scalable, performant data infrastructure.

Summary

Learn to leverage MinIO object storage to build and deploy high performance applications across Kubernetes, public and private clouds and to the edge.

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Code Success with MinIO

The developer course for MinIO provides the foundation and best practices to develop on or integrate with MinIO.

Summary

Learn to connect to MinIO object storage with custom code that can scale from a simple proof of concept to public and private clouds and to the edge.

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Deploy and Manage MinIO at Scale on Kubernetes

MinIO Enterprise Administration II: Containers and Kubernetes (MN216). Build and manage an enterprise grade Kubernetes based object store leveraging the MinIO Operator.

Summary

Experienced MinIO administrators can learn to build and deploy high performance applications on Kubernetes using the MinIO Operator.

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Begin Your Journey to Certification

Validate your skills with the MinIO Certified Administrator exam. Choose the option that fits your goals:

  • Get the MinIO Learning Subscription, which includes an exam voucher. Unlock the full learning library plus the voucher to sit for the exam when you are ready.
  • Buy the certification exam a la carte. Take the exam on its own and earn your verified MinIO digital credential.

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Why Certify with MinIO?

  • Digital credential: Earn a verified MinIO badge you can share on LinkedIn or by email.
  • Professional recognition: Show you can deploy and manage MinIO high performance object storage with confidence.
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Join Our Monthly Webinar

Hands-on training webinars covering real-world operations with MinIO AIStor—from capacity expansion and natural language management to seamless data lake migration with Apache Iceberg.
Upcoming Webinars
Past Webinars
February 25, 2026
Streaming Data with Kafka into AIStor Tables Powered by Iceberg
Presenter: Will Dinyes, Head of Certification—MinIO
In this MinIO training webinar, you will learn how to stream data through Kafka into MinIO AIStor Tables powered by Apache Iceberg. We will demonstrate how to build a lightweight streaming pipeline that ingests and processes data in real time, storing it efficiently in AIStor Tables for analytics and AI workloads.

You’ll see how Iceberg brings structured querying, schema evolution, and time travel to unstructured object storage—unlocking high-performance, production-ready data lakes on MinIO. This session combines practical instruction with live demonstrations to help you build scalable, secure streaming data architectures.
November 13, 2025
Training AI Image Classifiers with PyTorch and MinIO AIStor
Will Dinyes, Head of Certification—MinIO
October 22, 2025
Migrating Your Data to Apache Iceberg on MinIO AIStor – From Legacy Lakes to Modern Lake Tables
Presenter: Samson Koshy, Senior MinIO Curriculum Engineer
September 24, 2025
Using Human Language to Manage MinIO AIstor with MCP
Presenter: Pavel Anni, Senior MinIO Curriculum Engineer

Authorized Partner Enablement Program

This specialized track ensures that our partners, including accredited resellers, integrators, technology partners, and ISVs, have the knowledge needed to integrate and implement MinIO AIStor solutions. 
Courses include AIStor enablement, accreditation, and badging for sales and field architect roles. 
Reach out to your partner manager or learn more about the Partner Program here.
Partner Program
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