Configure Milvus with Milvus Operator

This document describes how to set configure Milvus componnets with Milvus Operator.

Before you start, you should have a basic understanding of the Custom Resource (CR) in Kubernetes. If not, please refer to Kubernetes CRD doc.

The milvus.yaml

Usually, a Milvus component reads its configuration through a configuration file, which is often refered to as milvus.yaml.

If we don’t set any specific configuration, the default config file within the your Milvus image will be used. You can find the default configurations for milvus releases in the Milvus GitHub repository.

For example: the latest milvus release v2.2.2’s default configuration file can be found at https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/blob/master/configs/milvus.yaml, and the following link describes most configurations fields in detail: https://milvus.io/docs/system_configuration.md.

Change the milvus.yaml

All configurations in the milvus.yaml can be changed by setting the corresponding field in the spec.config of the Milvus CRD.

For example you deploy a Milvus demo without setting any specific configuration under spec.config, like below:

apiVersion: milvus.io/v1beta1
kind: Milvus
metadata:
  name: my-release
  labels:
    app: milvus
spec:
  config: {}
# Omit other fields
# ...

Then no change will be made to the default configuration file.

To change some configurations, for example we want to change the default log level to warn, max log file size to 300MB and change the default log path to /var/log/milvus, we can set the spec.config like below:

apiVersion: milvus.io/v1beta1
kind: Milvus
metadata:
  name: my-release
  labels:
    app: milvus
spec:
  config:
    # ref: https://milvus.io/docs/configure_log.md
    log:
      level: warn
      file:
        maxSize: 300
        rootPath: /var/log/milvus

Configuration for Milvus dependencies

There’re also configuration sections about milvus’s dependencies in the milvus.yaml (like minio, etcd, pulsar…). Usually you don’t need to change these configurations, because the Milvus Operator will set them automatically according to your specifications in spec.dependencies.<dependency name> field.

But you can still set these configurations mannually if you want to. It will override the configurations set by Milvus Operator.