Install Milvus Cluster

This topic describes how to install Milvus standalone with Docker Compose or on Kubernetes. We recommend reading Before you Begin prior to your installation.

You can also build Milvus from source code at GitHub.

1. Download an installation file

Run the following command to download milvus-cluster-docker-compose.yml and save it as docker-compose.yml.

$ wget https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/releases/download/v2.0.0-rc7/milvus-cluster-docker-compose.yml -O docker-compose.yml

You can also click here to download the file.

2. Start Milvus

$ docker-compose up -d

Docker Compose is now in the Docker CLI, try `docker compose up`
Creating milvus-etcd   ... done
Creating milvus-minio  ... done
Creating milvus-pulsar ... done
Creating milvus-proxy      ... done
Creating milvus-rootcoord  ... done
Creating milvus-indexcoord ... done
Creating milvus-querycoord ... done
Creating milvus-datacoord  ... done
Creating milvus-querynode  ... done
Creating milvus-indexnode  ... done
Creating milvus-datanode   ... done

After Milvus cluster starts, 11 running docker containers appear including three infrastructure services and eight Milvus services.

$ sudo docker ps
      Name                     Command                  State                          Ports
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milvus-datacoord    /tini -- milvus run datacoord    Up
milvus-datanode     /tini -- milvus run datanode     Up
milvus-etcd         etcd -listen-peer-urls=htt ...   Up (healthy)   2379/tcp, 2380/tcp
milvus-indexcoord   /tini -- milvus run indexcoord   Up
milvus-indexnode    /tini -- milvus run indexnode    Up
milvus-minio        /usr/bin/docker-entrypoint ...   Up (healthy)   9000/tcp
milvus-proxy        /tini -- milvus run proxy        Up             0.0.0.0:19530->19530/tcp,:::19530->19530/tcp
milvus-pulsar       bin/pulsar standalone            Up
milvus-querycoord   /tini -- milvus run querycoord   Up
milvus-querynode    /tini -- milvus run querynode    Up
milvus-rootcoord    /tini -- milvus run rootcoord    Up

3. Stop Milvus

To stop Milvus cluster, run $ sudo docker-compose down.

To delete data after stopping Milvus, run $ sudo rm -rf volumes.