MinIO Admin for PHP

Finally, a PHP wrapper for MinIO Admin!

About MinIO

MinIO is a cloud storage server compatible with Amazon S3, released under Apache License v2. As an object store, MinIO can store unstructured data such as photos, videos, log files, backups and container images. The maximum size of an object is 5 TB. MinIO's High Performance Object Storage is Open Source, Amazon S3 compatible, Kubernetes Friendly and is designed for cloud native workloads like AI.

MinIO provides great official documentation and I really like this wonderful platform. However, there were some demands for a complete REST API integration for MinIO Admin functions that are only accessible via the command line.

Overview

At the time of writing, the only programmatic options for invoking the MinIO admin is by using a limited REST API document that does not include how to CRUD users, and an official repository written in Go language.

The technical team behind MinIO has indicated in one of their posts that they do not intend to expand the Admin API to other languages other than the provided Golang implementation. Therefore, I am here to provide the community with a wrapper that hopefully will be helpful for all the LAMP stack developers out there.

Essentially, this wrapper is for PHP users. You can also run this as a fully fledged REST API if you so desire!

Installation

1. Run git clone https://github.com/dominicklee/MinIO-Admin-for-PHP.git into a directory of your choice, but not inside the MinIO server directory. You can download this repo and extract the contents.

2. Make sure your LAMP or WAMP server is effectively running and not in safe-mode. The wrapper will run shell commands as defined by your REST request. Therefore, it makes sense to keep this wrapper in a publicly accessible directory.

3. Change the apiSecret variable in index.php with your desired value. To authenticate all your API requests, you will need to specify in Authentication in the header. The value of the authentication is the MD5 result your apiSecret and action. Assuming you use SSL (highly recommended), this is slightly more secure than basic authentication.

   In PHP, this is written as: $authKey = md5($apiSecret.$action);

   The examples in the Postman collection will show you how the authentication works.

REST API Usage

I have made it easy to start with REST API functionality. Download the included Postman collection for examples. The REST API will use the index.php as an endpoint. For security, please ensure you use SSL when running this in production.

Before importing the Postman collection, first create an environment in Postman with the following variables: secret, authorization, endpoint.

You must fill out the secret with the same text you provided in $apiSecret inside index.php.

You must fill out endpoint with the public URL that points to where you uploaded index.php.

You can leave authorization blank as that will be filled out by Postman later on.

You can take a look at the Postman collection online, but I highly recommend importing the collection JSON since it contains the script to generate authorization.

PHP Usage

If you just want to interact with the functions in PHP instead of using the REST API, just put in your PHP code include("minio.php") and thats it! You can now instantiate the class and start calling the functions.

Example

<?php 
	include("minio.php");

	$mcAdmin = new MinIO($alias, $endpoint, $accessKey, $secret);

	$mcAdmin->getServerInfo();	//gets server information

	$mcAdmin->addUser("testuser", "secret123456");	//adds a new user

	$mcAdmin->listUsers();	//lists all users
?>

Functions Implemented

This project is a work in progress that will be fully functional soon. This list is not exhaustive of all the commands but feel free to request if you need something.

• [Done] addKeys(alias, endpoint, accessKey, secret)
• [Done] getServerInfo()
• [Done] restartServer()
• [Done] stopServer()
• [Done] addUser(accessKey, secret)
• [Done] removeUser(accessKey)
• [Done] listUsers()
• [Done] getUser(accessKey)
• [Done] listPolicies()
• [Done] setPolicy(accessKey, policy)
• [WIP] updateServer()
• [WIP] disableUser(accessKey)
• [WIP] enableUser(accessKey)
• [WIP] addUsersGroup(groupName, accessKeys)
• [WIP] removeUsersGroup(groupName, accessKeys)
• [WIP] removeGroup(groupName)
• [WIP] getGroup(groupName)
• [WIP] listGroups()
• [WIP] disableGroup(groupName)
• [WIP] enableGroup(groupName)
• [WIP] getQuota(bucketName)
• [WIP] setQuota(bucketName)
• [WIP] resetQuota(bucketName)

Disclaimer

All code in this repository is given "AS-IS" with no warranty. The author is not affiliated with MinIO. The author shall not be responsible for any misuse as a result of users running this code. Use at your own risk.