MinIO Documentation

Build Instructions

MinIO uses Sphinx to generate static HTML pages using ReSTructured Text (rST).

Prerequisites

• Any GNU/Linux Operating System, or macOS 12.3 or later.
• python 3.10.x and python-pip
• python3.10-venv
• sphinx 6.2.1
• nodejs 14.5.0 or later
• npm 16.19.1 or later
• git or a git-compatible client

Build

NOTE: following instructions do work on macOS for testing purposes, however for production builds GNU/Linux is recommended.

1. Clone docs repository locally.

git clone https://github.com/minio/docs && cd docs/

2. Create a new Python virtual environment.

python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate

3. Install all the python and nodejs dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt && npm install && npm run build

4. Build your desired platform targets.

make linux

make linux k8s container

5. View the generated documentation at http://localhost:8000.

python -m http.server --directory build/YOUR_BRANCH/<PLATFORM>/html

Stage

The make stage-PLATFORM command uses the mc utility to copy the contents of the current git branch build output for the specified PLATFORM to a configured MinIO or S3-compatible bucket.

For the command to work, you must have a configured mc alias docs-staging with general read/write (s3:*) permissions on the staging bucket. The staging bucket should have public or anonymous access enabled.

For example:

make stage-linux

Does the following:

1. Check that the build/GITDIR/linux folder exists
2. Copies the contents of build/GITDIR/linux/html/* to docs-staging/staging/GITDIR/linux

Syncing Operator CRD Docs

For importing the Operator CRD Docs specifically, you must have:

• pandoc (latest stable)
• asciidoc (latest stable)

In addition to all other prerequisites.

Run

make sync-operator-crd

This script does three things:

• Downloads and converts the tenant-crd.adoc from the MinIO Operator Github repository
• Downloads the Operator Helm values.yaml from the Operator Github repository
• Downloads the Tenant Helm values.yaml from the Operator Github repository

For the the tenant-crd.adoc , it converts the asciidoc to XML, then to markdown. Finally, it does some sed find/replace to tidy up the file for Sphinx ingest.

You can run this when we have a new Operator release being documented, assuming there are changes to the CRD as part of that release. It should make it somewhat easier to periodically sync these docs instead of pulling them down every single build, when we do not expect or need to doc changes in latest stable.

License

This project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. See CONTRIBUTING.md guide for more information on contributing to the MinIO Documentation project.

NOTE: This work was previously licensed under AGPL3.0. You can find all AGPL3.0 licensed code at commit:73772c7f8485809446cc890188a89ece1afb93f6