Docker provides standardized mechanisms to run docker containers as non-root users.

#### GNU/Linux and macOS (regular user)

On Linux and macOS you can use `--user` to run the container as regular user.

> NOTE: make sure --user has write permission to *${HOME}/data* prior to using `--user`.

```sh
mkdir -p ${HOME}/data
docker run \
  -p 9000:9000 \
  -p 9001:9001 \
  --user $(id -u):$(id -g) \
  --name minio1 \

Example: Limit a MinIO cluster to accept at max 1600 simultaneous S3 API requests across all nodes of the cluster.

```sh
export MINIO_API_REQUESTS_MAX=1600

For testing purposes, here is [how to create self-signed certificates](https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/docs/tls#3-generate-self-signed-certificates).

**NOTE:**