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## Prerequisites

## Scope

- All IAM Credentials are allowed access excluding rotating credentials, rotating credentials
  are not allowed to login via FTP/SFTP ports, you must use S3 API port for if you are using
  rotating credentials.

- Access to bucket(s) and object(s) are governed via IAM policies associated with the incoming
  login credentials.

- Allows authentication and access for all

To disable this behavior, use `(SingleHandler).WithSharedResponse()` to disable it.

## Streaming Requests

Streams consists of an initial request with payload and allows for full two-way communication between the client and server.

The handler function has this signature.

Sample handler:
```go

### 2. Configure authentication type for Prometheus metrics

MinIO supports two authentication modes for Prometheus either `jwt` or `public`, by default MinIO runs in `jwt` mode. To allow public access without authentication for prometheus metrics set environment as follows.

```
export MINIO_PROMETHEUS_AUTH_TYPE="public"
minio server ~/test
```

### 3. Configuring Prometheus

With NetworkPolicy enabled, traffic will be limited to just port 9000.

For more precise policy, set `networkPolicy.allowExternal=true`. This will
only allow pods with the generated client label to connect to MinIO.
This label will be displayed in the output of a successful install.

### Existing secret

- **Removing a site** is not allowed from a set of replicated sites once configured.
- All sites must be using the **same** external IDP(s) if any.

Read more on how to use these endpoints in [MinIO healthcheck guide](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/metrics/healthcheck/README.md).

## Prometheus Probe

## Deployment Recommendations

### Allow port access for Firewalls

By default MinIO uses the port 9000 to listen for incoming connections. If your platform blocks the port by default, you may need to enable access to the port.

### ufw

For hosts with ufw enabled (Debian based distros), you can use `ufw` command to allow traffic to specific ports. Use below command to allow access to port 9000

```sh
ufw allow 9000

  - `HeadObject`
  - `GetObject`
  - `ListObjectsV2`
- If the ZIP file directory isn't located within the last 100MB the file will not be parsed.
- A maximum of 100M inside a single zip is allowed. However, a reasonable limit of 100,000 files inside a single ZIP archive is recommended for best performance and memory usage trade-off.

## Content-Type

your setup can use this feature combination safely.

To enable compression+encryption use:

```bash
~ mc admin config set myminio compression allow_encryption=on
```

Or alternatively through the environment variable `MINIO_COMPRESSION_ALLOW_ENCRYPTION=on`.

### 4. Excluded Types

- Already compressed objects are not fit for compression since they do not have compressible patterns.