Install Milvus Standalone with Docker

This topic describes how to install Milvus standalone using Docker.

Prerequisites

• Install Docker.

• Check the requirements for hardware and software prior to your installation.

Install Milvus Standalone with Docker

• Start Milvus.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milvus-io/milvus/master/scripts/standalone_embed.sh
bash standalone_embed.sh start

• Connect to Milvus

Please refer to Quickstart, then run the example code.

• Stop Milvus

To stop Milvus standalone, run:

bash standalone_embed.sh stop

To delete data after stopping Milvus, run:

bash standalone_embed.sh delete

What's next

Having installed Milvus, you can:

• Check Hello Milvus to run an example code with different SDKs to see what Milvus can do.

• Check In-memory Index for more about CPU-compatible index types.

• Learn the basic operations of Milvus:

  • Manage Databases
  • Manage Collections
  • Manage Partitions
  • Insert, Upsert & Delete
  • Single-Vector Search
  • Multi-Vector Search

• Explore Milvus Backup, an open-source tool for Milvus data backups.

• Explore Birdwatcher, an open-source tool for debugging Milvus and dynamic configuration updates.

• Explore Attu, an open-source GUI tool for intuitive Milvus management.

• Monitor Milvus with Prometheus