Run Milvus in Docker

This page illustrates how to launch a Milvus instance in Docker.

Prerequisites

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

Install Milvus in Docker

Milvus provides an installation script to install it as a docker container. The script is available in the Milvus repository. To install Milvus in Docker, just run

# Download the installation script
$ curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milvus-io/milvus/master/scripts/standalone_embed.sh -o standalone_embed.sh

# Start the Docker container
$ bash standalone_embed.sh start

After running the installation script:

• A docker container named milvus has been started at port 19530.
• An embed etcd is installed along with Milvus in the same container and serves at port 2379. Its configuration file is mapped to embedEtcd.yaml in the current folder.
• To change the default Milvus configuration, add your settings to the user.yaml file in the current folder and then restart the service.
• The Milvus data volume is mapped to volumes/milvus in the current folder.

You can stop and delete this container as follows

# Stop Milvus
$ bash standalone_embed.sh stop

# Delete Milvus data
$ bash standalone_embed.sh delete

What’s next

Having installed Milvus in Docker, you can:

• Check Quickstart to see what Milvus can do.

• Learn the basic operations of Milvus:

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

• Upgrade Milvus Using Helm Chart.

• Scale your Milvus cluster.

• Deploy your Milvu cluster on clouds:

  • Amazon EKS
  • Google Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure

• 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.