MinIO Console

A graphical user interface for MinIO

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Table of Contents

• MinIO Console
  • Install
    • Binary Releases
    • Docker
    • Build from source
  • Setup
    • 1. Create a user console using mc
    • 2. Create a policy for console with admin access to all resources (for testing)
    • 3. Set the policy for the new console user
  • Start Console service:
  • Start Console service with TLS:
  • Connect Console to a Minio using TLS and a self-signed certificate
• Contribute to console Project

Install

Binary Releases

OS	ARCH	Binary
Linux	amd64	linux-amd64
Linux	arm64	linux-arm64
Linux	ppc64le	linux-ppc64le
Linux	s390x	linux-s390x
Apple	amd64	darwin-amd64
Windows	amd64	windows-amd64

You can also verify the binary with minisign by downloading the corresponding .minisig signature file. Then run:

minisign -Vm console-<OS>-<ARCH> -P RWTx5Zr1tiHQLwG9keckT0c45M3AGeHD6IvimQHpyRywVWGbP1aVSGav

Docker

Pull the latest release via:

docker pull minio/console

Build from source

You will need a working Go environment. Therefore, please follow How to install Go. Minimum version required is go1.18

go install github.com/minio/console/cmd/console@latest

Setup

All console needs is a MinIO user with admin privileges and URL pointing to your MinIO deployment.

Note: We don't recommend using MinIO's Operator Credentials

1. Create a user console using mc

mc admin user add myminio/
Enter Access Key: console
Enter Secret Key: xxxxxxxx

2. Create a policy for console with admin access to all resources (for testing)

cat > admin.json << EOF
{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [{
			"Action": [
				"admin:*"
			],
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Sid": ""
		},
		{
			"Action": [
                "s3:*"
			],
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:s3:::*"
			],
			"Sid": ""
		}
	]
}
EOF

mc admin policy add myminio/ consoleAdmin admin.json

3. Set the policy for the new console user

mc admin policy set myminio consoleAdmin user=console

NOTE: Additionally, you can create policies to limit the privileges for other console users, for example, if you want the user to only have access to dashboard, buckets, notifications and watch page, the policy should look like this:

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [{
			"Action": [
				"admin:ServerInfo"
			],
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Sid": ""
		},
		{
			"Action": [
				"s3:ListenBucketNotification",
				"s3:PutBucketNotification",
				"s3:GetBucketNotification",
				"s3:ListMultipartUploadParts",
				"s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads",
				"s3:ListBucket",
				"s3:HeadBucket",
				"s3:GetObject",
				"s3:GetBucketLocation",
				"s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
				"s3:CreateBucket",
				"s3:PutObject",
				"s3:DeleteObject",
				"s3:DeleteBucket",
				"s3:PutBucketPolicy",
				"s3:DeleteBucketPolicy",
				"s3:GetBucketPolicy"
			],
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:s3:::*"
			],
			"Sid": ""
		}
	]
}

Start Console service:

Before running console service, following environment settings must be supplied

# Salt to encrypt JWT payload
export CONSOLE_PBKDF_PASSPHRASE=SECRET

# Required to encrypt JWT payload
export CONSOLE_PBKDF_SALT=SECRET

# MinIO Endpoint
export CONSOLE_MINIO_SERVER=http://localhost:9000

Now start the console service.

./console server
2021-01-19 02:36:08.893735 I | 2021/01/19 02:36:08 server.go:129: Serving console at http://localhost:9090

By default console runs on port 9090 this can be changed with --port of your choice.

Start Console service with TLS:

Copy your public.crt and private.key to ~/.console/certs, then:

./console server
2021-01-19 02:36:08.893735 I | 2021/01/19 02:36:08 server.go:129: Serving console at http://[::]:9090
2021-01-19 02:36:08.893735 I | 2021/01/19 02:36:08 server.go:129: Serving console at https://[::]:9443

For advanced users, console has support for multiple certificates to service clients through multiple domains.

Following tree structure is expected for supporting multiple domains:

 certs/
  │
  ├─ public.crt
  ├─ private.key
  │
  ├─ example.com/
  │   │
  │   ├─ public.crt
  │   └─ private.key
  └─ foobar.org/
     │
     ├─ public.crt
     └─ private.key
  ...

Connect Console to a Minio using TLS and a self-signed certificate

Copy the MinIO ca.crt under ~/.console/certs/CAs, then:

export CONSOLE_MINIO_SERVER=https://localhost:9000
./console server

You can verify that the apis work by doing the request on localhost:9090/api/v1/...

Contribute to console Project

Please follow console Contributor's Guide