Install Milvus Standalone with dpkg/yum

This topic describes how to install Milvus standalone using package manager dpkg or yum on Linux systems.

Prerequisites

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

Install Milvus

Install Milvus with dpkg on Ubuntu

$ wget https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/releases/download/v2.3.16/milvus_2.3.16-1_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo dpkg -i milvus_2.3.16-1_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get -f install

Install Milvus with yum on RedHat9

$ sudo yum install -y https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/releases/download/v2.3.16/milvus-2.3.16-1.el9.x86_64.rpm

Check the status of Milvus

$ sudo systemctl restart milvus
$ sudo systemctl status milvus

Connect to Milvus

Please refer to Hello Milvus, then run the example code.

Uninstall Milvus

Uninstall Milvus on Ubuntu

$ sudo dpkg -P milvus

Uninstall Milvus on RedHat9

$ sudo yum remove -y milvus

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:

  • Connect to Milvus server
  • Manage Databases
  • Create a collection
  • Create a partition
  • Insert data
  • Conduct a 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