milvus/INSTALL.md

Build and Start Milvus from Source Code

This article describes how to build and start Milvus Standalone and Cluster from source code.

• Prerequisites
• Build Milvus
• Start Milvus

Prerequisites

Install the following before building Milvus from source code.

• Git for version control.
• Golang version 1.15 or higher and associated toolkits.
• CMake version 3.14 or higher for compilation.
• OpenBLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library version 0.3.9 or higher for matrix operations.

Build Milvus

1. Clone Milvus' GitHub repository:

$ cd /home/$USER
$ git clone https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus.git

2. Install third-party dependencies:

$ cd milvus
$ ./scripts/install_deps.sh

3. Compile executed binary for Milvus:

$ make milvus

Start Milvus

1. Start infrastructure services:

$ cd /home/$USER/milvus/deployments/docker/dev
$ sudo docker-compose up -d

2. Start Milvus:

• For Milvus Standalone

$ cd /home/$USER/milvus
./bin/milvus run standalone    > /tmp/standalone.log     2>&1  &

• For Milvus Cluster:

$ cd /home/$USER/milvus
#start RootCoord
./bin/milvus run rootcoord     > /tmp/rootcoord.log      2>&1  &
#start coord
./bin/milvus run datacoord     > /tmp/datacoord.log      2>&1  &
./bin/milvus run indexcoord    > /tmp/indexcoord.log     2>&1  &
./bin/milvus run querycoord    > /tmp/querycoord.log     2>&1  &
#start node
./bin/milvus run proxy         > /tmp/proxy.log          2>&1  &
./bin/milvus run datanode      > /tmp/data_node.log      2>&1  &
./bin/milvus run indexnode     > /tmp/index_node.log     2>&1  &
./bin/milvus run querynode     > /tmp/query_node.log     2>&1  &