Install Milvus Standalone with Docker Compose (CPU)
This topic describes how to install Milvus standalone using Docker Compose.
Prerequisites
Check the requirements for hardware and software prior to your installation.
For the users using MacOS 10.14 or later, set the Docker virtual machine (VM) to use a minimum of 2 virtual CPUs (vCPUs) and 8 GB of initial memory. Otherwise, installation might fail.
Download the YAML
file
Download milvus-standalone-docker-compose.yml
and save it as docker-compose.yml
manually, or with the following command.
$ wget https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/releases/download/v2.3.1/milvus-standalone-docker-compose.yml -O docker-compose.yml
Start Milvus
In the same directory as the docker-compose.yml
file, start up Milvus by running:
$ sudo docker compose up -d
If you failed to run the above command, please check whether your system has Docker Compose V1 installed. If it is the case, you are advised to migrate to Docker Compose V2 due to the notes on this page.
Creating milvus-etcd ... done
Creating milvus-minio ... done
Creating milvus-standalone ... done
Now check if the containers are up and running.
$ sudo docker compose ps
After Milvus standalone starts, there will be three docker containers running, including the Milvus standalone service and its two dependencies.
Name Command State Ports
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milvus-etcd etcd -advertise-client-url ... Up 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, 0.0.0.0:9091->9091/tcp
Connect to Milvus
Verify which local port the Milvus server is listening on. Replace the container name with your own.
$ docker port milvus-standalone 19530/tcp
You can connect to Milvus using the local IP address and port number returned by this command.
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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Check In-memory Index for more about CPU-compatible index types.
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Learn the basic operations of Milvus:
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Explore Milvus Backup, an open-source tool for Milvus data backups.
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Explore Birdwatcher, an open-source tool for debugging Milvus and dynamic configuration updates.
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Explore Attu, an open-source GUI tool for intuitive Milvus management.