hotfix branch during backports as long it is self contained. There are situations however this may lead to conflicts and the patch will not cleanly apply. Conflicts might be trivial which can be resolved easily, when conflicts seem to be non-trivial or touches the part of the code-base the developer is not confident - to get additional clarity reach out to #hack on MinIOHQ slack channel. Hasty changes must be avoided, minor fixes and logs may be added to hotfix branches but this should not be followed...

  quay.io/minio/minio server /data
```

`MINIO_ROOT_USER_FILE` and `MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE` also support custom absolute paths, in case Docker secrets are mounted to custom locations or other tools are used to mount secrets into the container. For example, HashiCorp Vault injects secrets to `/vault/secrets`. With the custom names above, set the environment variables to

```

Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:

* The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or
  advances
* Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
* Public or private harassment
* Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic
  address, without explicit permission

## Possible Solution
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<!--- or ideas how to implement the addition or change -->

## Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)
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# 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

| Erasure Set Size | Default Parity (EC:N) |
|------------------|-----------------------|
| 5 or fewer       |                 EC:2  |
| 6-7              |                 EC:3  |
| 8 or more        |                 EC:4  |

![Erasure](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/screenshots/erasure-code.jpg?raw=true)

## What is Bit Rot protection?

<http://dl.min.io> - they are only published for `linux-amd64` architecture as binary files with the suffix `.fips`. We also publish corresponding container images to our official image repositories.

We are not making any statements or representations about the suitability of this code or build in relation to the FIPS 140-2 standard. Interested users will have to evaluate for themselves whether this is useful for their own purposes....

## Introduction

etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable way to store data across a cluster of machines.

## Get started

### 1. Prerequisites

- Docker 18.03 or above, refer here for [installation](https://docs.docker.com/install/).

### 2. Start etcd