Creating public access to minio storage

Question

I am running minio in a docker container and I want files that are uploaded to be accessible by the public. I have tried with nginx however that is just a reverse proxy. The problem is that minio has a access key and a secret so if I setup nginx as a reverse proxy I still need to login.

I want to make it possible to download files through nginx or apache. Is there a way to make files/buckets within minio publicly accessible without having to login so that I can create direct links to the file?

Piffle

Can you explain what exactly a kind of file? Build results? From what kind of builds? – Limbourg

Thank you for your response. I have decided to build something for myself since minio doesnt seem to have any decent public access.. – Piffle

I would suggest to use a Nexus repository manager instance... minio has appropriate permission settings which makes it possible... – Limbourg

Answer 1

To set the default policy for unauthenticated users, the command is mc policy set download minio_alias/bucketname

Source: https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-client-complete-guide.html

For an example of using nginx for hosting the files, here's a github gist: How to configure static website using Nginx with MinIO?

Turki

The problem is that the official minio docker container doesnt have the mc command. It says mc is an unknown command. – Piffle

You can either install the mc client on a local machine, or use the mc client container – Turki

If using docker you can read more information on this page: #66412789 – Piffle

Answer 2

# list default hosts after install: 
mc config host ls

# remove all hosts: mc config host rm {hostName}
mc config host rm local

# add your host: mc config host add {hostName} {url} {apiKey} {apiSecret}
mc config host add local http://127.0.0.1:9000 ClientIdASSDSD ClientSecretASASASdsasdasdasdasd

# create bucket: mc mb {host}/{bucket}
mc mb local/mybucket

# change bucket policy: mc policy {policy} {host}/{bucket}
mc policy set public local/mybucket

Cattleman

For recent versions of minio: mc anonymous set public myminio/public min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc/… – Liederman

will this allow anonymous write / delete also of the bucket's contents, or just read? – Macario