diff --git a/k8s/infrastructure/minio/buckets.yaml b/k8s/infrastructure/minio/buckets.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c2f9f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/infrastructure/minio/buckets.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+apiVersion: minio.min.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Bucket
+metadata:
+  name: riotpiao-models
+  namespace: minio
+spec:
+  name: riotpiao-models
+  # Bucket versioning for LLM model artifacts
+  versioning:
+    enabled: true
+  tags:
+    app: ollama
+    layer: applications
+    purpose: model-storage
+---
+# Future: Add more buckets as needed
+# Example: terraform-state, logs, artifacts, etc.
diff --git a/k8s/infrastructure/minio/kustomization.yaml b/k8s/infrastructure/minio/kustomization.yaml
index 237b4c3..1f8eda7 100644
--- a/k8s/infrastructure/minio/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/k8s/infrastructure/minio/kustomization.yaml
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ resources:
   - minio-tenant.yaml
   - minio-service.yaml
   - minio-replication-job.yaml
+  - buckets.yaml
 # Legacy: minio-legacy-alias.yaml skipped (migration artifact, conflicts with namespace transform)