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+---
+title: "Deploy Milvus through the Linode Marketplace"
+description: "Deploy Milvus, an open-source vector database for AI, similarity search, and embeddings workloads."
+published: 2026-02-03
+keywords: ['milvus', 'vector database', 'AI', 'embeddings', 'similarity search']
+tags: ["ubuntu", "marketplace", "developer", "milvus", "linode platform", "machine learning"]
+external_resources:
+- '[Milvus.io](https://milvus.io/)'
+- '[Milvus Documentation](https://milvus.io/docs)'
+- '[Milvus Quickstart Guide](https://milvus.io/docs/install_standalone-docker.md)'
+aliases: ['/products/tools/marketplace/guides/milvus/']
+authors: ["Akamai"]
+contributors: ["Akamai"]
+license: '[CC BY-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0)'
+---
+
+Milvus is a high-performance open-source vector database that enables fast similarity search across unstructured data, including image, video, audio, and text embeddings. Designed for AI workloads and large-scale vector indexing, Milvus provides millisecond-level retrieval performance and integrates easily with popular machine learning frameworks and embedding services.
+
+This guide includes steps for deploying the Milvus Standalone Marketplace App on a Linode Compute Instance using Docker Compose.
+
+## Deploying a Marketplace App
+
+{{% content "deploy-marketplace-apps-shortguide" %}}
+
+{{% content "marketplace-verify-standard-shortguide" %}}
+
+{{< note >}}
+**Estimated deployment time:** After provisioning completes, the Milvus Standalone container stack initializes in approximately 3–5 minutes.
+{{< /note >}}
+
+## Configuration Options
+
+- **Supported distributions:** Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
+- **Recommended minimum plan:** Dedicated 16GB instance or higher for baseline development and testing with support for GPU instances. Larger plans are recommended for compute
+
+### Milvus Deployment Options
+
+{{% content "marketplace-required-limited-user-fields-shortguide" %}}
+
+{{% content "marketplace-custom-domain-fields-shortguide" %}}
+
+{{% content "marketplace-special-character-limitations-shortguide" %}}
+
+### Obtain the Credentials
+
+When deployment completes, the system automatically generates credentials for internal MinIO storage and other parameters needed to administer your Milvus instance. These are stored in the limited user’s credentials file.
+
+1. Log in to your Compute Instance using one of the methods below:
+
+    - **Lish Console**: Log in to Cloud Manager, click **Linodes**, select your instance, and click **Launch LISH Console**. Log in as `root`. To learn more, see [Using the Lish Console](/docs/products/compute/compute-instances/guides/lish/).
+    - **SSH**: Log in to your instance over SSH using the `root` user. To learn how, see [Connecting to a Remote Server Over SSH](/docs/guides/connect-to-server-over-ssh/).
+
+2. Run the following command to access the credentials file:
+
+```command
+cat /home/$USERNAME/.credentials
+```
+
+### Getting Started After Deployment
+
+Once the Milvus Standalone container is deployed and running, you can connect to the database and begin creating collections, inserting vectors, and performing searches.
+
+To interact with Milvus, install the a supported client SDK (Python, Go, Java, Node.js).
+
+    - **[pymilvus](https://github.com/milvus-io/pymilvus)**: Python SDK for Milvus Vector Database
+    - **[milvus-sdk-node](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-node)**: node.js SDK for Milvus Vector Database
+    - **[Milvus Go SDK](https://milvus.io/docs/install-go.md)**: GO SDK for Milvus Vector Database
+    - **[Milvus Java SDK](https://milvus.io/docs/install-java.md)**: Java SDK for Milvus Vector Database
+
+### Verify Running Containers
+
+First, confirm that all Milvus-related containers are running:
+
+```command
+docker ps
+```
+You should see containers for Milvus, etcd, and MinIO in a running state.
+
+### Access the MinIO Dashboard
+Milvus uses MinIO as its object storage backend. You can access the MinIO web interface to verify bucket creation and storage activity.
+
+To access your MinIO Dashboard, Open a browser and navigate to your Linode rDNS domain `https://203-0-113-0.ip.linodeusercontent.com`. Replace `https://203-0-113-0.ip.linodeusercontent.com` with your [Linode's RDNS domain](/docs/products/compute/compute-instances/guides/manage-ip-addresses/#viewing-ip-addresses). The credentials can be found in the credentials file (/home/$USERNAME/.credentials).
+
+If you want to learn more about Milvus, checkout [the official Milvus documentation](https://milvus.io/docs) to learn how to further utilize your instance.
+
+{{% content "marketplace-update-note-shortguide" %}}