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@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ Project [here](https://github.com/minio/minio-operator).
 
 MinIO is a high performance, distributed object storage system. It is software-defined, runs on industry standard hardware and is 100% open source under the Apache V2 license.
 
-App Version: Operator 2.0.8, instance 2.0.8
+App Version: Operator 2.0.9, instance 2.0.9  
+
 Plugins: 
 Additional docs for using  and its plugins can be found at $URL
 The containers being used are maintained in the public/apps/minio registry.  These containers ahve not been hardened, but have been retagged.  When available hardened containers will be implemented.
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@@ -3,4 +3,32 @@ This is unmodified manifest code version 2.0.9 from
 https://github.com/minio/operator/tree/2.0.9
 Any needed changes are made in kustomize overlays.
 
-This is an older version but it must match the latest IronBank hardened image version as close as possible.
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+This is an older version but it must match the latest IronBank hardened image version as close as possible.
+
+Minio is working with IronBank hardened images.
+
+## Important deployment note
+The MinIO documentation does not clearly tell you that for distributed mode, the number of volumes per server must match the total number of servers.  If you have 3 servers there must be 3 volumes per server. 
+
+## Quick Minio test
+https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-client-quickstart-guide  
+These instructions are for Linux but the link also has instructions for Mac.
+
+as root install minio client
+```
+cd /usr/local/bin/
+wget https://dl.min.io/client/mc/release/linux-amd64/mc
+chmod +x mc
+./mc --help
+```
+as regular user port-forward the headless minio service from the cluster
+```
+kubectl port-forward svc/minio-hl-svc 9000:9000 -n minio
+```
+as regular user
+```
+ mc alias set minio http://127.0.0.1:9000 minio minio123
+ mc ls minio
+ mc mb minio/mybucket
+ mc ls minio
+```