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    Introduction

    Minio is an object storage server built for cloud applications and DevOps. Minio is S3 compatible and provides an open-source alternative to AWS S3. You can download and install Minio pretty quickly. Minio also provides an official Docker image. For further details, check out Minio documentation website.

    AccessKey and SecretKey

    Once you install and deploy Minio server, you can get the AccessKey and SecretKey from the startup message.

    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141689279Z
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141730078Z Endpoint:  http://172.17.0.2:9000  http://127.0.0.1:9000
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141735582Z AccessKey: 5fD3434325fDaGE77BNJlSoV1xGp
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141738933Z SecretKey: Quie2teech4oofoo9Dahsoo7aithauja
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141742292Z Region:    us-east-1
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141745405Z SQS ARNs:  <none>
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141749472Z
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141752499Z Browser Access:
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141755711Z    http://172.17.0.2:9000  http://127.0.0.1:9000
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141758830Z
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141762000Z Command-line Access: https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-quickstart-guide
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141765638Z    $ mc config host add myminio http://172.17.0.2:9000 1H2MI5BCU45990DZ3WRL flJlSoV1xGp+u2fhfDaGE77BNE6OdyvAsdI15kPq
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141768751Z
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141771631Z Object API (Amazon S3 compatible):
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.141774638Z    Go:         https://docs.minio.io/docs/golang-client-quickstart-guide
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.142003548Z    Java:       https://docs.minio.io/docs/java-client-quickstart-guide
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.142019474Z    Python:     https://docs.minio.io/docs/python-client-quickstart-guide
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.142024004Z    JavaScript: https://docs.minio.io/docs/javascript-client-quickstart-guide
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.142027614Z
    2017-01-24T19:53:21.142030994Z Drive Capacity: 262 GiB Free, 303 GiB Total

    To override Minio auto-generated keys, you may explicitly pass secret and access keys as environment variables. Find more details on the Minio docs.

    Setup Rocket.Chat to use Minio

    To set up Minio as the file storage server in Rocket.Chat, go to File Uploads section under Administration, then set Storage Type: GridFS (default) to AmazonS3. Next, access the AmazonS3 menu and update the following details:

    Configuration Name

    Description

    Bucket name

    Minio Bucket Name

    Access Key

    Minio server Access Key

    Secret Key

    Minio server Secret Access Key

    Region

    us-east-1

    Bucket URL

    http://[your.minio.domain/bucketname]

    Signature Version

    v2 (This may not be needed if using ssl)

    Force Path Style

    true (this may not be needed if using ssl)

    URLs expiration timespan

    0 (if you want your files to never expire)

    Set up production environment

    In production, you can use a reverse proxy with Minio server. You can also secure access to Minio server with TLS. Find out more on the Minio documentation.

    Note: If you specify a different region in Minio, ensure it is the same as the S3 region. Check the complete regions list.


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