minio/docs/chroot/README.md

Deploy MinIO on Chrooted Environment

Chroot allows user based namespace isolation on many standard Linux deployments.

1. Prerequisites

• Familiarity with chroot
• Chroot installed on your machine.

2. Install MinIO in Chroot

Note: MinIO community edition is now distributed as source code only. Pre-compiled binaries are no longer provided for new releases.

Build MinIO from source and install it in the chroot directory:

# Build MinIO from source
go install github.com/minio/minio@latest

# Create the bin directory in your chroot
mkdir -p /mnt/export/${USER}/bin

# Copy the built binary to the chroot directory
cp $(go env GOPATH)/bin/minio /mnt/export/${USER}/bin/minio
chmod +x /mnt/export/${USER}/bin/minio

Alternatively, if you have an existing legacy binary, you can still use it, but note that it will not receive updates.

Bind your proc mount to the target chroot directory

sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/export/${USER}/proc

3. Run Standalone MinIO in Chroot

GNU/Linux

sudo chroot --userspec username:group /mnt/export/${USER} /bin/minio --config-dir=/.minio server /data

Endpoint:  http://192.168.1.92:9000  http://65.19.167.92:9000
AccessKey: MVPSPBW4NP2CMV1W3TXD
SecretKey: X3RKxEeFOI8InuNWoPsbG+XEVoaJVCqbvxe+PTOa
...
...

Instance is now accessible on the host at port 9000, proceed to access the Web browser at http://127.0.0.1:9000/

Explore Further

• MinIO Erasure Code Overview
• Use mc with MinIO Server
• Use aws-cli with MinIO Server
• Use minio-go SDK with MinIO Server
• The MinIO documentation website