### Expanding existing distributed setup

MinIO supports expanding distributed erasure coded clusters by specifying new set of clusters on the command-line as shown below:

```sh
export MINIO_ROOT_USER=<ACCESS_KEY>
export MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=<SECRET_KEY>
minio server http://host{1...n}/export{1...m} http://host{o...z}/export{1...m}
```

container based compute environment. A cloud-native application is portable and resilient by design, and can scale horizontally by simply replicating. Modern orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, DC/OS make replicating and managing containers in huge clusters easier than ever.

While containers provide isolated application execution environment, orchestration platforms allow seamless scaling by helping replicate and manage containers. MinIO extends this by adding isolated storage environment for...

We provide the following plugins:

- `elasticsearch.esplugin` - A gradle plugin for building an elasticsearch plugin.
- `elasticsearch.testclusters` - A gradle plugin for setting up es clusters for testing within a build.

This project is published as part of the elasticsearch release and accessible by
`org.elasticsearch.gradle:build-tools:<versionNumber>`.

            @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
            NamedDomainObjectContainer<ElasticsearchCluster> clusters = (NamedDomainObjectContainer<ElasticsearchCluster>) project
                .getExtensions()
                .getByName(TestClustersPlugin.EXTENSION_NAME);
            clusters.all(c -> {
                if (BuildParams.isInFipsJvm()) {

> NOTE:  While MinIO does not implement an upper boundary on buckets, your cluster's hardware has natural limits that depend on the workload and its scaling patterns. We strongly recommend [MinIO SUBNET](https://min.io/pricing) for architecture and sizing guidance for your production use case.

## MinIO Deployment on Kubernetes

There are multiple options to deploy MinIO on Kubernetes:

- MinIO-Operator: Operator offers seamless way to create and update highly available distributed MinIO clusters. Refer [MinIO Operator documentation](https://github.com/minio/minio-operator/blob/master/README.md) for more details.

# Automatic Site Replication

This feature allows multiple independent MinIO sites (or clusters) that are using the same external IDentity Provider (IDP) to be configured as replicas. In this situation the set of replica sites are referred to as peer sites or just sites. When site-replication is enabled on a set of sites, the following changes are replicated to all other sites:

- Creation and deletion of buckets and objects

- 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

```sh
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

Lifecycle transition functionality provided in [bucket lifecycle guide](https://github.com/minio/minio/master/docs/bucket/lifecycle/README.md) allows tiering of content from MinIO object store to public clouds or other MinIO clusters.

Transition tiers can be added to MinIO using `mc admin tier add` command to associate a `gcs`, `s3` or `azure` bucket or prefix path on a bucket to the tier name.

## Run Standalone MinIO on Docker

*Note*: Standalone MinIO is intended for early development and evaluation. For production clusters, deploy a [Distributed](https://docs.min.io/community/minio-object-store/operations/deployments/baremetal-deploy-minio-as-a-container.html) MinIO deployment.