Django Minio Connector

Django storage backend to use Minio Server as file storage. It is wrapper over "minio" library.

Installation

At first, you need to have working minio server. How to do that you can found at Minio Quickstart Guide.

Install Django Minio Storage from pip:

pip install django-minio-connector

Add configuration of Minio storage to your projects settings file:

from django_minio_connector import MinIOStorage

STORAGES = {
    "staticfiles": {
        "BACKEND": MinIOStorage,
        "OPTIONS": {
            "MINIO_ENDPOINT": 'your_minio_server_address',
            "MINIO_ROOT_USER": "your_minio_server_access_key",
            "MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD": "your_minio_server_secret_key",
            'MINIO_USE_HTTPS': False,
            'MINIO_BUCKET_NAME': 'static-bucket-name',
            'MINIO_BUCKET_POLICY': {
                "Version": "2012-10-17",
                "Statement": [
                    {
                        "Effect": "Allow",
                        "Principal": {"AWS": "*"},
                        "Action": [
                            "s3:GetBucketLocation",
                            "s3:ListBucket"
                        ],
                        "Resource": f"arn:aws:s3:::static"
                    },
                    {
                        "Effect": "Allow",
                        "Principal": {"AWS": "*"},
                        "Action": "s3:GetObject",
                        "Resource": f"arn:aws:s3:::static/*"
                    }
                ]
            },
            'MINIO_PRESIGNED_URL': False,
        },
    },
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': MinIOStorage,
        "OPTIONS": {
            "MINIO_ENDPOINT": 'your_minio_server_address',
            "MINIO_ROOT_USER": "your_minio_server_access_key",
            "MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD": "your_minio_server_secret_key",
            'MINIO_USE_HTTPS': False,
            'MINIO_BUCKET_NAME': 'media-bucket-name',
        },

    }
}

For using MinIO server in development stage could install it by Docker MinIO Quickstart Guide

Demo MinIO server and it's credentials can be found at MinIO console.

MinIO library documentation Python Client API Reference

More information about file storages can be found at Django Docs.

Description of STORAGE settings Settings

Currently tested only at Django 5.1. Does not work on earlier versions because the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE and STATICFILES_STORAGE settings is removed.