The django-minio-backend provides a wrapper around the MinIO Python SDK. See minio/minio-py for the source.
- Get and install the package:
pip install django-minio-backend
- Add
django_minio_backend
toINSTALLED_APPS
:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
# '...'
'django_minio_backend', # https://github.com/theriverman/django-minio-backend
]
If you would like to enable on-start consistency check, install via DjangoMinioBackendConfig
:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
# '...'
'django_minio_backend.apps.DjangoMinioBackendConfig', # https://github.com/theriverman/django-minio-backend
]
Then add the following parameter to your settings file:
MINIO_CONSISTENCY_CHECK_ON_START = True
Note: The on-start consistency check equals to manually calling python manage.py initialize_buckets
.
It is recommended to turn off this feature during development by setting MINIO_CONSISTENCY_CHECK_ON_START
to False
,
because this operation can noticeably slow down Django's boot time when many buckets are configured.
- Add the following parameters to your
settings.py
:
from datetime import timedelta
from typing import List, Tuple
MINIO_ENDPOINT = 'minio.your-company.co.uk'
MINIO_EXTERNAL_ENDPOINT = "external-minio.your-company.co.uk" # Default is same as MINIO_ENDPOINT
MINIO_EXTERNAL_ENDPOINT_USE_HTTPS = True # Default is same as MINIO_USE_HTTPS
MINIO_REGION = 'us-east-1' # Default is set to None
MINIO_ACCESS_KEY = 'yourMinioAccessKey'
MINIO_SECRET_KEY = 'yourVeryS3cr3tP4ssw0rd'
MINIO_USE_HTTPS = True
MINIO_URL_EXPIRY_HOURS = timedelta(days=1) # Default is 7 days (longest) if not defined
MINIO_CONSISTENCY_CHECK_ON_START = True
MINIO_PRIVATE_BUCKETS = [
'django-backend-dev-private',
]
MINIO_PUBLIC_BUCKETS = [
'django-backend-dev-public',
]
MINIO_POLICY_HOOKS: List[Tuple[str, dict]] = []
# MINIO_MEDIA_FILES_BUCKET = 'my-media-files-bucket' # replacement for MEDIA_ROOT
# MINIO_STATIC_FILES_BUCKET = 'my-static-files-bucket' # replacement for STATIC_ROOT
MINIO_BUCKET_CHECK_ON_SAVE = True # Default: True // Creates bucket if missing, then save
# Custom HTTP Client (OPTIONAL)
import os
import certifi
import urllib3
timeout = timedelta(minutes=5).seconds
ca_certs = os.environ.get('SSL_CERT_FILE') or certifi.where()
MINIO_HTTP_CLIENT: urllib3.poolmanager.PoolManager = urllib3.PoolManager(
timeout=urllib3.util.Timeout(connect=timeout, read=timeout),
maxsize=10,
cert_reqs='CERT_REQUIRED',
ca_certs=ca_certs,
retries=urllib3.Retry(
total=5,
backoff_factor=0.2,
status_forcelist=[500, 502, 503, 504]
)
)
- Implement your own Attachment handler and integrate django-minio-backend:
from django.db import models
from django_minio_backend import MinioBackend, iso_date_prefix
class PrivateAttachment(models.Model):
file = models.FileField(verbose_name="Object Upload",
storage=MinioBackend(bucket_name='django-backend-dev-private'),
upload_to=iso_date_prefix)
- Initialize the buckets & set their public policy (OPTIONAL):
Thisdjango-admin
command creates both the private and public buckets in case one of them does not exists, and sets the public bucket's privacy policy fromprivate
(default) topublic
.
python manage.py initialize_buckets
Code reference: initialize_buckets.py.
django-minio-backend allows serving static files from MinIO. To learn more about Django static files, see Managing static files, and STATICFILES_STORAGE.
To enable static files support, update your settings.py
:
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'django_minio_backend.models.MinioBackendStatic'
MINIO_STATIC_FILES_BUCKET = 'my-static-files-bucket' # replacement for STATIC_ROOT
# Add the value of MINIO_STATIC_FILES_BUCKET to one of the pre-configured bucket lists. eg.:
# MINIO_PRIVATE_BUCKETS.append(MINIO_STATIC_FILES_BUCKET)
# MINIO_PUBLIC_BUCKETS.append(MINIO_STATIC_FILES_BUCKET)
The value of STATIC_URL
is ignored, but it must be defined otherwise Django will throw an error.
IMPORTANT
The value set in MINIO_STATIC_FILES_BUCKET
must be added either to MINIO_PRIVATE_BUCKETS
or MINIO_PUBLIC_BUCKETS
,
otherwise django-minio-backend will raise an exception. This setting determines the privacy of generated file URLs which can be unsigned public or signed private.
Note: If MINIO_STATIC_FILES_BUCKET
is not set, the default value (auto-generated-bucket-static-files
) will be used. Policy setting for default buckets is private.
django-minio-backend can be configured as a default file storage. To learn more, see DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE.
To configure django-minio-backend as the default file storage, update your settings.py
:
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'django_minio_backend.models.MinioBackend'
MINIO_MEDIA_FILES_BUCKET = 'my-media-files-bucket' # replacement for MEDIA_ROOT
# Add the value of MINIO_STATIC_FILES_BUCKET to one of the pre-configured bucket lists. eg.:
# MINIO_PRIVATE_BUCKETS.append(MINIO_STATIC_FILES_BUCKET)
# MINIO_PUBLIC_BUCKETS.append(MINIO_STATIC_FILES_BUCKET)
The value of MEDIA_URL
is ignored, but it must be defined otherwise Django will throw an error.
IMPORTANT
The value set in MINIO_MEDIA_FILES_BUCKET
must be added either to MINIO_PRIVATE_BUCKETS
or MINIO_PUBLIC_BUCKETS
,
otherwise django-minio-backend will raise an exception. This setting determines the privacy of generated file URLs which can be unsigned public or signed private.
Note: If MINIO_MEDIA_FILES_BUCKET
is not set, the default value (auto-generated-bucket-media-files
) will be used. Policy setting for default buckets is private.
To check the connection link between Django and MinIO, use the provided MinioBackend.is_minio_available()
method.
It returns a MinioServerStatus
instance which can be quickly evaluated as boolean.
Example:
from django_minio_backend import MinioBackend
minio_available = MinioBackend().is_minio_available() # An empty string is fine this time
if minio_available:
print("OK")
else:
print("NOK")
print(minio_available.details)
You can configure django-minio-backend to automatically execute a set of pre-defined policy hooks.
Policy hooks can be defined in settings.py
by adding MINIO_POLICY_HOOKS
which must be a list of tuples.
Policy hooks are automatically picked up by the initialize_buckets
management command.
For an exemplary policy, see the implementation of def set_bucket_to_public(self)
in django_minio_backend/models.py or the contents
of examples/policy_hook.example.py.
When enabled, the initialize_buckets
management command gets called automatically when Django starts.
This command connects to the configured minIO server and checks if all buckets defined in settings.py
.
In case a bucket is missing or its configuration differs, it gets created and corrected.
For a reference implementation, see Examples.
The following list summarises the key characteristics of django-minio-backend:
- Bucket existence is not checked on a save by default.
To enable this guard, set
MINIO_BUCKET_CHECK_ON_SAVE = True
in yoursettings.py
. - Bucket existences are not checked on Django start by default.
To enable this guard, set
MINIO_CONSISTENCY_CHECK_ON_START = True
in yoursettings.py
. - Many configuration errors are validated through
AppConfig
but not every error can be captured there. - Files with the same name in the same bucket are not replaced on save by default. Django will store the newer file with an altered file name
To allow replacing existing files, pass the
replace_existing=True
kwarg toMinioBackend
. For example:image = models.ImageField(storage=MinioBackend(bucket_name='images-public', replace_existing=True))
- Depending on your configuration, django-minio-backend may communicate over two kind of interfaces: internal and external.
If your
settings.py
defines a different value forMINIO_ENDPOINT
andMINIO_EXTERNAL_ENDPOINT
, then the former will be used for internal communication between Django and MinIO, and the latter for generating URLs for users. This behaviour optimises the network communication. See Networking below for a thorough explanation - The uploaded object's content-type is guessed during save. If
mimetypes.guess_type
fails to determine the correct content-type, then it falls back toapplication/octet-stream
.
If your Django application is running on a shared host with your MinIO instance, you should consider using the MINIO_EXTERNAL_ENDPOINT
and MINIO_EXTERNAL_ENDPOINT_USE_HTTPS
parameters.
This way most traffic will happen internally between Django and MinIO. The external endpoint parameters are required for external pre-signed URL generation.
If your Django application and MinIO instance are running on different hosts, you can omit the MINIO_EXTERNAL_ENDPOINT
and MINIO_EXTERNAL_ENDPOINT_USE_HTTPS
parameters,
and django-minio-backend will default to the value of MINIO_ENDPOINT
.
Setting up and configuring custom networks in Docker is not in the scope of this document.
To learn more about Docker networking, see Networking overview and Networking in Compose.
See README.Docker.md for a real-life Docker Compose demonstration.
- Django 2.2 or later
- Python 3.8.0 or later
- MinIO SDK 7.0.2 or later
Please find the details in CONTRIBUTE.md
- theriverman/django-minio-backend licensed under the MIT License
- minio/minio-py is licensed under the Apache License 2.0