# MinIO Storage Class Quickstart Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io)

MinIO server supports storage class in erasure coding mode. This allows configurable data and parity drives per object.

This page is intended as a summary of MinIO Erasure Coding. For a more complete explanation, see <https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/concepts/erasure-coding.html>.

## Overview

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.

# Bucket Versioning Design Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io) [![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/minio/minio.svg?maxAge=604800)](https://hub.docker.com/r/minio/minio/)

## Description of `xl.meta`

`xl.meta` is a new self describing backend format used by MinIO to support AWS S3 compatible versioning.
This file is the source of truth for each `version` at rest. `xl.meta` is a msgpack file serialized from a

## Explore Further

- [MinIO Admin Complete Guide](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc-admin.html)

special permissions listed above. Follow [MinIO STS Quickstart Guide](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/developers/security-token-service.html) to manage users with an IDP.

## Explore Further

- [MinIO Client Complete Guide](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc.html)
- [MinIO STS Quickstart Guide](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/developers/security-token-service.html)

# Dex Quickstart Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io)

# MinIO Monitoring Guide

MinIO server exposes monitoring data over endpoints. Monitoring tools can pick the data from these endpoints. This document lists the monitoring endpoints and relevant documentation.

## Healthcheck Probe

MinIO server has two healthcheck related un-authenticated endpoints, a liveness probe to indicate if server is responding, cluster probe to check if server can be taken down for maintenance.

## Explore Further

- [Use `minio-java` SDK with MinIO Server](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/developers/java/minio-java.html)
- [Object Lock and Immutablity Guide](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/administration/object-management/object-retention.html)
- [MinIO Admin Complete Guide](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc-admin.html)

### Explore Further

* [Overview of Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/overview/)
* [MinIO Docker Quickstart Guide](https://min.io/docs/minio/container/index.html#quickstart-for-containers)

# Distributed MinIO Quickstart Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io) [![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/minio/minio.svg?maxAge=604800)](https://hub.docker.com/r/minio/minio/)