Install Milvus Standalone
This topic describes how to install Milvus standalone with Docker Compose or on Kubernetes.
Check the requirements for hardware and software prior to your installation.
If you run into image loading errors while installing, you can Install Milvus Offline.
You can also build Milvus from source code at GitHub.
Download an installation file
Download milvus-standalone-docker-compose.yml directly or with the following command, and save it as docker-compose.yml.
$ wget https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/releases/download/v2.0.2/milvus-standalone-docker-compose.yml -O docker-compose.yml
Start Milvus
$ sudo 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-standalone ... done
Check the status of the containers.
$ sudo docker-compose ps
After Milvus standalone starts, three running docker containers appear including two dependencies and one Milvus service.
Name Command State Ports
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milvus-etcd etcd -listen-peer-urls=htt ... Up (healthy) 2379/tcp, 2380/tcp
milvus-minio /usr/bin/docker-entrypoint ... Up (healthy) 9000/tcp
milvus-standalone /tini -- milvus run standalone Up 0.0.0.0:19530->19530/tcp,:::19530->19530/tcp
Stop Milvus
To stop Milvus standalone, run:
sudo docker-compose down
To delete data after stopping Milvus, run:
sudo rm -rf volumes
What's next
Having installed Milvus, you can:
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Check Hello Milvus to run an example code with different SDKs to see what Milvus can do.
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Learn the basic operations of Milvus:
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Explore MilvusDM, an open-source tool designed for importing and exporting data in Milvus.