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minio/docs/federation/lookup
Feng Ruohang 6613c2a3cb test: pin the external fixtures and run the suites against the silo binary
The test and verification scripts invoked ./minio and pulled their tooling from
upstream infrastructure with no integrity check. Every `curl | tar` of a client
or an old server binary was an unverified execution path in a script that
regularly runs as a privileged user, and several fetched a floating "latest".

Two installers replace all of it:

- install-mcli.sh resolves a pinned pgsty/mc release, downloads the archive and
  its checksum manifest, requires exactly one valid manifest entry for the
  asset, verifies it, and installs. MCLI_BIN with a mandatory MCLI_SHA256 lets
  an offline or air-gapped run supply its own binary, still checksum-checked.
- install-verified-fixture.sh takes source, expected SHA-256 and target, and
  refuses anything that does not match. Sources may be a URL or a local file.

Every script that previously downloaded mc now calls install-mcli.sh. The three
places that genuinely need an upstream artifact - the old MinIO server binary
for the LDAP IAM upgrade-import test, the 2021 mc for the three-site
replication test, and the functional-tests.sh fixture - go through
install-verified-fixture.sh with the digest recorded inline. Those dl.min.io
URLs remain on purpose: they are historical upstream artifacts needed to prove
upgrade compatibility, and they are now pinned and verified rather than
trusted.

The scripts otherwise switch to ./silo, silo.service, the silo container and
compose service names, and SILO_CONFIG_DIR. run-multi-site-minio-idp.sh is
renamed to run-multi-site-silo-idp.sh with the Makefile target following.
buildscripts/minio-upgrade.sh keeps its name and its `minio server` argv - it
exists to test the MinIO-to-Silo upgrade, so the old side must stay old - but
it is now pinned to an image digest rather than a tag, and its `docker system
prune` and `docker volume prune` calls are removed. Those ran unfiltered
against the developer's whole Docker installation; the resiliency tests had the
same problem and lose their prune and `docker ps -q` sweeps too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 08:48:58 +08:00
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Federation Quickstart Guide Slack Federation feature is deprecated and should be avoided for future deployments

This document explains how to configure MinIO with Bucket lookup from DNS style federation.

Get started

1. Prerequisites

Install MinIO - MinIO Quickstart Guide.

2. Run MinIO in federated mode

Bucket lookup from DNS federation requires two dependencies

  • etcd (for bucket DNS service records)
  • CoreDNS (for DNS management based on populated bucket DNS service records, optional)

Architecture

bucket-lookup

Environment variables

MINIO_ETCD_ENDPOINTS

This is comma separated list of etcd servers that you want to use as the MinIO federation back-end. This should be same across the federated deployment, i.e. all the MinIO instances within a federated deployment should use same etcd back-end.

MINIO_DOMAIN

This is the top level domain name used for the federated setup. This domain name should ideally resolve to a load-balancer running in front of all the federated MinIO instances. The domain name is used to create sub domain entries to etcd. For example, if the domain is set to domain.com, the buckets bucket1, bucket2 will be accessible as bucket1.domain.com and bucket2.domain.com.

MINIO_PUBLIC_IPS

This is comma separated list of IP addresses to which buckets created on this MinIO instance will resolve to. For example, a bucket bucket1 created on current MinIO instance will be accessible as bucket1.domain.com, and the DNS entry for bucket1.domain.com will point to IP address set in MINIO_PUBLIC_IPS.

  • This field is mandatory for standalone and erasure code MinIO server deployments, to enable federated mode.
  • This field is optional for distributed deployments. If you don't set this field in a federated setup, we use the IP addresses of hosts passed to the MinIO server startup and use them for DNS entries.

Run Multiple Clusters

cluster1

export MINIO_ETCD_ENDPOINTS="http://remote-etcd1:2379,http://remote-etcd2:4001"
export MINIO_DOMAIN=domain.com
export MINIO_PUBLIC_IPS=44.35.2.1,44.35.2.2,44.35.2.3,44.35.2.4
minio server http://rack{1...4}.host{1...4}.domain.com/mnt/export{1...32}

cluster2

export MINIO_ETCD_ENDPOINTS="http://remote-etcd1:2379,http://remote-etcd2:4001"
export MINIO_DOMAIN=domain.com
export MINIO_PUBLIC_IPS=44.35.1.1,44.35.1.2,44.35.1.3,44.35.1.4
minio server http://rack{5...8}.host{5...8}.domain.com/mnt/export{1...32}

In this configuration you can see MINIO_ETCD_ENDPOINTS points to the etcd backend which manages MinIO's config.json and bucket DNS SRV records. MINIO_DOMAIN indicates the domain suffix for the bucket which will be used to resolve bucket through DNS. For example if you have a bucket such as mybucket, the client can use now mybucket.domain.com to directly resolve itself to the right cluster. MINIO_PUBLIC_IPS points to the public IP address where each cluster might be accessible, this is unique for each cluster.

NOTE: mybucket only exists on one cluster either cluster1 or cluster2 this is random and is decided by how domain.com gets resolved, if there is a round-robin DNS on domain.com then it is randomized which cluster might provision the bucket.

3. Test your setup

To test this setup, access the MinIO server via browser or mc. Youll see the uploaded files are accessible from the all the MinIO endpoints.

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