How to install MinIO on Rocky Linux 8 / 9

MinIO has been a great alternative to services like S3 from AWS.

In this quick tutorial, you will learn how to install MinIO in a Rocky Linux (8 or 9) distribution from the scratch until the end.

Let’s Start.

First, let’s update your system packages.

sudo dnf update -y

And now, some necessary dependencies

sudo dnf install wget vim -y

Step 1 – Download using the wget command the latest available binary file for MinIO

Use the binary file for your architecture:

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

For arm64
wget https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/linux-arm64/minio

Once the binary for your architecture has been downloaded, copy it to /usr/local/bin/ and make it executable.

sudo cp minio /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/minio

Create a new directory to be used as MinIO storage.

sudo mkdir -p /data/minio

Create an environment file for MinIO as below.

sudo vim /etc/default/minio

Add info to the file

# Volume to be used for Minio server.
MINIO_VOLUMES="/data/minio/"

# Use if you want to run Minio on a custom port.
MINIO_OPTS="--address :9000 --console-address :9001"

# Root user 
MINIO_ROOT_USER=admin
# Root secret
MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=admin

Create a System Service file for MinIO.
To be able to manage the MinIO storage server like any other systemd service, we need to create a system service file.

sudo useradd -s /sbin/nologin -d /minio minio

Set the required permissions:

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/minio
sudo chown minio:minio /usr/local/bin/minio
sudo chown minio:minio /etc/default/minio

Create the service file.

sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/minio.service

In the file, add the content below.

[Unit]
Description=Minio
Documentation=https://docs.minio.io
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
AssertFileIsExecutable=/usr/local/bin/minio

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/

User=minio
Group=minio

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

# Let systemd restart this service always
Restart=always

# Specifies the maximum file descriptor number that can be opened by this process
LimitNOFILE=65536

# Disable timeout logic and wait until process is stopped
TimeoutStopSec=infinity
SendSIGKILL=no

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Save the file and reload system daemons.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Start and enable the MinIO service.

sudo systemctl enable minio.service
sudo systemctl start minio.service

Check the status of the service.

systemctl status minio.service

If you see “Active: active (running)”, the MinIo is running correctly.

Step 3 – Access the MinIO Storage Server Web Console.

The MinIO storage server web UI can be accessed using the URL http:// IP Address :9000/

That’s it!