meeting to share your ideas.

This document is an overview of how the operator works from a user perspective. For more details about the design and
architecture and a code overview, see [ARCHITECTURE.md](../architecture/environments/operator.md).

## Introduction

The operator uses the [IstioOperator API](https://github.com/istio/api/blob/master/operator/v1alpha1/operator.proto), which has
three main components:

This README provides quickstart instructions on running MinIO on bare metal hardware, including container-based installations. For Kubernetes environments, use the [MinIO Kubernetes Operator](https://github.com/minio/operator/blob/master/README.md).

## Container Installation

Use the following commands to run a standalone MinIO server as a container.

referencing this chart. <br/><br/> MinIO publishes a separate [MinIO Kubernetes Operator and Tenant Helm Chart](https://github.com/minio/operator/tree/master/helm) that is officially maintained and supported. MinIO strongly recommends using the MinIO Kubernetes Operator for production deployments. See [Deploy Operator With Helm](https://min.io/docs/minio/kubernetes/upstream/operations/install-deploy-manage/deploy-operator-helm.html?ref=github) for additional documentation. |

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