Install MinIO on Linux

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User and group #

Create the user and the group for Minio:

adduser --system --group --shell="/sbin/nologin" --home="/var/lib/minio" minio

chown -R minio:minio /mnt/data

Binary #

wget https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/linux-amd64/minio

sudo install -v minio /usr/local/bin/

Config #

nano /etc/default/minio

MINIO_ROOT_USER=admin
MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD="SECURE_PASSWORD"

MINIO_VOLUMES="/mnt/data"

MINIO_OPTS='--console-address=:9001 --sftp=\"address=:9022\" --sftp=\"ssh-private-key=/var/lib/minio/.ssh/id_rsa\"'

SFTP #

Create the directory for the key:

sudo -u minio mkdir /var/lib/minio/.ssh

Create an RSA4096 key:

sudo -u minio ssh-keygen -b 4096 -f /var/lib/minio/.ssh/id_rsa -N "" -t rsa

Systemd #

Create the service:

nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/minio.service

[Unit]
Description=MinIO
Documentation=https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/index.html
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
AssertFileIsExecutable=/usr/local/bin/minio

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/minio

User=minio     
Group=minio     
ProtectProc=invisible

EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/minio
ExecStartPre=/bin/bash -c "if [ -z \"${MINIO_VOLUMES}\" ]; then echo \"Variable MINIO_VOLUMES not set in /etc/default/minio\"; exit 1; fi"
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/minio server $MINIO_OPTS $MINIO_VOLUMES

Type=notify

Restart=always

LimitNOFILE=65536

TasksMax=infinity

TimeoutStopSec=infinity
SendSIGKILL=no

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

systemctl daemon-reload

systemctl enable --now minio.service