Cannot Access MinIO Console in Milvus Deployment on GKE (ClusterIP + Port Forward)

[villdie18]

Hi,

I'm running into an issue accessing the MinIO server that’s part of my Milvus deployment on GKE. I installed Milvus 2.5.4 using the Helm chart, with MinIO enabled and deployed in distributed mode (4 pods). The minio service is of type ClusterIP.

I'm trying to port-forward to the MinIO Console from my local machine using:

kubectl port-forward -n milvus service/milvus-historical-minio 38809:38809

The MinIO Console does load at http://localhost:38533, and I'm able to enter the default credentials (minioadmin:minioadmin). However, immediately after logging in, the console crashes and becomes unresponsive.

Browser DevTools show:
GET http://127.0.0.1:38533/api/v1/session 403 (Forbidden)
GET http://127.0.0.1:38533/api/v1/check-version 500 (Internal Server Error)

The terminal running kubectl port-forward shows repeated broken pipe errors at the same time:
error copying from remote stream to local connection: write tcp ...: write: broken pipe

Has anyone successfully exposed the MinIO console in this setup?

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

PD.

I'm thinking maybe I need to use a load balancer instead of Cluster IP to be able to connect.