## Container Installation

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

Standalone MinIO servers are best suited for early development and evaluation. Certain features such as versioning, object locking, and bucket replication
require distributed deploying MinIO with Erasure Coding. For extended development and production, deploy MinIO with Erasure Coding enabled - specifically,

Docker installed on your machine. Download the relevant installer from [here](https://www.docker.com/community-edition#/download).

## Run Standalone MinIO on Docker

*Note*: Standalone MinIO is intended for early development and evaluation. For production clusters, deploy a [Distributed](https://min.io/docs/minio/container/operations/install-deploy-manage/deploy-minio-single-node-multi-drive.html) MinIO deployment.