NOTE: Deprecated in favor of https://github.com/jessestuart/minio-multiarch

For nightly multiarch (amd64, arm64, and armv7) builds, see the updated version of this repo.

Minio Server on Docker ARM

Minio is a FOSS project offering a "high performance distributed object storage server", with fabulous features like an S3-compliant API, excellent documentation, and out-of-the-box support for Docker, K8S, and most major cloud providers (as well as self-hosting, of course).

One of the few things they don't provide is a Docker image compatible with ARM architectures. Luckily, it's easy enough to build our own, since they do provide a precompiled binary for ARM (although its release cycle tends to lag behind x64/AMD).

How can I use this?

You can run the following command on an ARM-based system to stand up a standalone instance of Minio Server on Docker:

docker run \
  -v /export/minio \
  -v /export/minio-config:/root/.minio \
  -p 9000:9000 \
  jessestuart/minio-armhf server /export

Alternatively, you can build locally to ensure you're pulling the latest stable binary:

git clone https://github.com/jessestuart/minio-armhf
cd minio-armhf
docker build -t minio-armhf .
# ---------------------------------------
# Or to push to your Docker Hub account (or quay.io, etc) to make the image
# publicly accessible:
docker build -t {your_username}/minio-armhf .
docker push {your_username}/minio-armhf .

Kubernetes Usage

The latest image will work on arm Kubernetes out-of-the-box. However, if you're looking to patch a recent Helm chart and get a full Minio deployment working with a single command, you'll run into an error with the configuration version (I'm presuming because at time of writing, the hosted ARM release is eight months behind master). So to get this working, I compiled a binary from source on native ARM. I've used the dev tag for this image to indicate that it may be unstable, pulling from master.

Using that binary, I was able to get the deployment up and running with something like:

$ helm install stable/minio \
  --tiller-namespace kube-system \
  --set image=jessestuart/minio-armhf,imageTag=dev

You can check out Minio's docs for more info.