milvus/docs/developer_guides/entrypoint.md

Entrypoint

Syntax

Use the following syntax to run milvus commands from your terminal window:

milvus [command] [server type] [flags]

Example:

$ MILVUS_CONF_PATH=/path/to/milvus/configs milvus run master

where command, server type, and flags are:

command: Specifies the operation that you want to perform on server, for example run, status, stop

server type: Specifies the server type, server type are:

• master
• msgstream
• proxyservice
• proxynode
• queryservice
• querynode
• dataservice
• datanode
• indexservice
• indexnode
• standalone

flags: Specifies optional flags. For example, you can use the -f or --config flags to specify the configuration file.

Getting help You can get help for CLI tool using the --help flag, or -h for short.

$ milvus run master --help

Environment

The table below lists the environment variables that you can use to configure the milvus tool.

Variable	Description	Default
MILVUS_CONF_PATH	Milvus configuration path	/milvus/configs