Install Milvus Standalone with Docker Compose

This topic describes how to install Milvus standalone with Docker Compose.

Prerequisites

• Check whether Docker and Docker Compose are installed on your machine.

• Check the requirements for hardware and software requirements before installing Milvus.

  • 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, the installation might fail.

Procedure

To install Milvus standalone with Docker Compose, follow these steps:

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/v2.3.21/milvus-standalone-docker-compose.yml -O docker-compose.yml

Start Milvus

In the directory that holds docker-compose.yml, start Milvus by running:

$ sudo docker compose up -d

Creating milvus-etcd  ... done
Creating milvus-minio ... done
Creating milvus-standalone ... done

Verify the Installation

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
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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

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

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:

• 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