diff --git a/ente/rootfs/etc/services.d/03-minio-init/run b/ente/rootfs/etc/services.d/03-minio-init/run
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9c6ae5ebf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ente/rootfs/etc/services.d/03-minio-init/run
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/usr/bin/with-contenv bashio
+# shellcheck shell=bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+MINIO_USER="$(bashio::config 'MINIO_ROOT_USER')"
+MINIO_PASS="$(bashio::config 'MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD')"
+S3_BUCKET="$(bashio::config 'S3_BUCKET')"
+
+bashio::log.info "MinIO-init: waiting for API..."
+until /usr/local/bin/mc alias set h0 http://127.0.0.1:3200 "${MINIO_USER}" "${MINIO_PASS}" 2>/dev/null; do
+    sleep 1
+done
+
+bashio::log.info "MinIO-init: ensuring bucket ${S3_BUCKET}..."
+/usr/local/bin/mc mb -p "h0/${S3_BUCKET}" || true
+
+bashio::log.info "MinIO-init: done."
+exit 0