Ansible Role: MinIO

Install and configure the MinIO S3 compatible object storage server on RHEL/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

minio_server_bin: /usr/local/bin/minio
minio_client_bin: /usr/local/bin/mc

Installation path of the MinIO server and client binaries.

minio_server_release: "RELEASE.2022-02-26T02-54-46Z"
minio_client_release: "RELEASE.2022-02-26T03-58-31Z"

Release to install for both server and client; lastest if the default. Can be 'RELEASE.2022-02-26T02-54-46Z' for instance.

minio_user: minio
minio_group: minio

Name and group of the user running the minio server. NB: This role automatically creates the minio user and/or group if they do not exist in the system.

minio_server_envfile: /etc/default/minio

You can specify the location of your existing config using --config-dir (default: ${HOME}/.minio)

minio_config_dir: "/etc/minio"

Path to the file containing the minio server configuration ENV variables.

minio_server_addr: ":9091"

The MinIO server listen address.

minio_server_datadirs:
  - /var/lib/minio

Directories of the folder containing the minio server data

minio_server_make_datadirs: true

Create directories from minio_server_datadirs

minio_server_args: [ ]

Set a list of nodes to create a distributed cluster.

In this mode, ansible will create your server datadirs, but use this list for the server startup. Note you will need a number of disks to satisfy MinIO's distributed storage requirements.

Example:

minio_server_datadirs:
  - '/minio-data'

minio_server_args:
  - 'https://server{1...4}/minio-data'

Additional environment variables to be set in MinIO server environment

minio_server_env_extra: |
  MINIO_REGION_NAME=us-east-1
  MINIO_API_REQUESTS_MAX=1600

Additional CLI options that must be appended to the minio server start command.

minio_server_opts: ""

MinIO root user and password.

minio_root_username: ""
minio_root_password: ""

Switches to disable minio server and/or minio client installation.

minio_install_server: true
minio_install_client: true

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- name: "Install MinIO"
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  roles:
    - { role: minio }
  vars:
    minio_server_datadirs: [ "/minio1" ]

Changelog

See changelog.

License

MIT