{"slug": "minio", "name": "MinIO", "category": "files", "category_name": "Files, sync and backup", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 15, "warners": 7, "score": -2.445, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-12-03", "latest": "2026-09-15", "why": "I only used MinIO briefly in the past, but it was good/worked", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 4, "compare": 1, "warn": 7}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I only used MinIO briefly in the past, but it was good/worked", "icon": true, "domain": "quay.io", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://min.io", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["MinIO"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 767637924, "item_id": 47977370, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977370", "by": "realityfactchex", "date": "2026-05-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I only used MinIO briefly in the past, but it was good/worked", "excerpt": "I'm thinking maybe SeaweedFS [0, 2] or Versity Gatweway [1, 3] or RustFS [4]. 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That is kind of neat because CCTV cameras have an option to upload a picture of motion detected to an FTP server and that being a distributed minio cluster really was a neat option, since you could then generate an event of a file uploaded, kick off a pipeline job or whatever. 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Moved off MinIO when the licensing shenanigans started", "context": "", "use_case": "S3 storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"}, {"id": 795382241, "item_id": 49711390, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711390", "by": "markab21", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "We switched over after MinIO license changes", "excerpt": "Yup, same. We use RustFS in a production system with no issues. We switched over after MinIO license changes and after evaluating a few different stacks. We have heavy concurrent usage, and we haven't had a single issue yet.", "context": "", "use_case": "S3 object storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"}, {"id": 795368049, "item_id": 49710503, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710503", "by": "Jedd", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "When I abandoned minio a year or so ago", "excerpt": "A weird target, the author has. The title is 'for single node local S3' but what they actually mean is 'for minio-compatibility', which is an entirely different question. When I abandoned minio a year or so ago, I also surveyed the options, and settled on Garage. It lacked the GUI, but felt about the same complexity as minio. Perhaps a smidge more complexity, as I moved to 3-node and 5-node separate instances of gara", "context": "", "use_case": "object storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"}, {"id": 752013761, "item_id": 47000860, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000860", "by": "lucideer", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "would have completely missed the maintenance status if it wasn't for Checkov nagging me", "excerpt": "This is timely news for me - I was just standing up some Loki infrastructure yesterday & following Grafana's own guides on object storage (they recommend minio for non-cloud setups). I wasn't previously experienced with minio & would have completely missed the maintenance status if it wasn't for Checkov nagging me about using latest tags for images & having to go searching for release versions. 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Moved off MinIO when the licensing shenanigans started", "context": "", "use_case": "S3 storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"}, {"id": 795417345, "item_id": 49713584, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713584", "by": "pstadler", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "My goal was to replace MinIO, which I could run and configure with a single Docker command.", "excerpt": "I've been using it for local development for a while now. My goal was to replace MinIO, which I could run and configure with a single Docker command. VersityGW works just as well for that.", "context": "", "use_case": "local S3", "switched_from": "", "story": "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"}, {"id": 795382241, "item_id": 49711390, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711390", "by": "markab21", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "We switched over after MinIO license changes", "excerpt": "Yup, same. We use RustFS in a production system with no issues. We switched over after MinIO license changes and after evaluating a few different stacks. We have heavy concurrent usage, and we haven't had a single issue yet.", "context": "", "use_case": "S3 object storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"}, {"id": 795368049, "item_id": 49710503, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710503", "by": "Jedd", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "When I abandoned minio a year or so ago", "excerpt": "A weird target, the author has. The title is 'for single node local S3' but what they actually mean is 'for minio-compatibility', which is an entirely different question. When I abandoned minio a year or so ago, I also surveyed the options, and settled on Garage. It lacked the GUI, but felt about the same complexity as minio. Perhaps a smidge more complexity, as I moved to 3-node and 5-node separate instances of gara", "context": "", "use_case": "object storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"}, {"id": 767637924, "item_id": 47977370, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977370", "by": "realityfactchex", "date": "2026-05-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I only used MinIO briefly in the past, but it was good/worked", "excerpt": "I'm thinking maybe SeaweedFS [0, 2] or Versity Gatweway [1, 3] or RustFS [4]. Seems there are other options, too, e.g. Garage [5]. I only used MinIO briefly in the past, but it was good/worked, and I do plan to set up S3 blob storage again soon. [0] https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs [1] https://github.com/versity/versitygw [2] https://blog.elest.io/rustfs-vs-seaweedfs-vs-garage-which-minio-alternative-should-you", "context": "", "use_case": "S3 blob storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?"}, {"id": 767637718, "item_id": 47977357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977357", "by": "uroni", "date": "2026-05-01", "stance": "compare", "quote": "VersityGW: Single-node alternative, which uses the same object=file in file system tree storage as MinIO", "excerpt": "I build https://github.com/uroni/hs5 as replacement for single node use with a focus on high performance. I list other alternatives in the README there. Some short version: Ceph: Robust, widely used for multi-node deployments. Would recommend for serious use. RustFS: As an in-place replacement using the same storage format. Though, to me it is a bit suspect, e.g. if it uses fsync for durability. seaweedfs: Multi-node", "context": "", "use_case": "object storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?"}, {"id": 755214256, "item_id": 47200891, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200891", "by": "kjuulh", "date": "2026-02-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "it is more or less feature complete, good enough for most use-cases", "excerpt": "Seems like a very balanced take on forking Minio. I don't have high hopes for the future Minio, but as mentioned it is more or less feature complete, good enough for most use-cases. I was searching for a fairly simple replacement for s3 for testing. I'd been using Minio for a while now, and simply ended up implementing my own on top of Postgres. Fun intersection given the post. (Note, I know it isn't optimal, but as ", "context": "", "use_case": "S3 replacement for testing", "switched_from": "MinIO", "story": "MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO"}, {"id": 752234464, "item_id": 47014654, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014654", "by": "fithisux", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Minio served its purpose. I used it as S3 compatible storage to create tutorials.", "excerpt": "Minio served its purpose. I used it as S3 compatible storage to create tutorials. They stopped maintaining but they forked it to a proprietary product. It makes sense for a corporate. Still Minio is there to fork, maintain and enhance in a different direction. Kudos to them.", "context": "", "use_case": "S3-compatible storage for tutorials", "switched_from": "", "story": "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"}, {"id": 752015712, "item_id": 47000982, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000982", "by": "merpkz", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Minio has or rather had an option to work as an FTP server! That is kind of neat", "excerpt": "Tangentially related, since we are on the subject of Minio. Minio has or rather had an option to work as an FTP server! That is kind of neat because CCTV cameras have an option to upload a picture of motion detected to an FTP server and that being a distributed minio cluster really was a neat option, since you could then generate an event of a file uploaded, kick off a pipeline job or whatever. Currently instead of t", "context": "", "use_case": "FTP upload from CCTV cameras to S3", "switched_from": "", "story": "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"}, {"id": 752013761, "item_id": 47000860, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000860", "by": "lucideer", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "would have completely missed the maintenance status if it wasn't for Checkov nagging me", "excerpt": "This is timely news for me - I was just standing up some Loki infrastructure yesterday & following Grafana's own guides on object storage (they recommend minio for non-cloud setups). I wasn't previously experienced with minio & would have completely missed the maintenance status if it wasn't for Checkov nagging me about using latest tags for images & having to go searching for release versions. Sofar I've switched to", "context": "", "use_case": "object storage for Loki", "switched_from": "", "story": "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"}, {"id": 749645938, "item_id": 46852871, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852871", "by": "re5i5tor", "date": "2026-02-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "S3 compatible volume (minio) on Synology", "excerpt": "I strongly recommend against Time Machine to NAS \u2014 just mentioned it in an article today as \u201cworks great, until it inevitably and catastrophically fails\u201d. Reliable for me is Kopia from Mac to S3 compatible volume (minio) on Synology.", "context": "", "use_case": "backup target", "switched_from": "", "story": "TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe"}, {"id": 742702690, "item_id": 46418918, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46418918", "by": "ku1ik", "date": "2025-12-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There\u2019s always risk of a rug pull or going the wrong direction with \u201copen-source\u201d software developed by a for-profit company (Plex, MinIO, Mattermost", "excerpt": "There\u2019s always risk of a rug pull or going the wrong direction with \u201copen-source\u201d software developed by a for-profit company (Plex, MinIO, Mattermost in this example). When choosing software that I run in my \u201chomelab\u201d I lean towards community developed projects first. They may not always have as high quality as the ones offered by commercial entities but they\u2019re just safer for the long term and have no artificial lim", "context": "homelab user", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Self-hosting is being enshittified"}, {"id": 742415442, "item_id": 46400965, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400965", "by": "weitendorf", "date": "2025-12-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm also not a fan of what minio did recently", "excerpt": "Only a very, very small fraction of open source projects get to the point where they legitimately need committees and working groups and maintainer politics/drama. > quite a few people would consider \"benevolent dictator for life\" an outdated model for open source communities. I think what most people dislike are rugpulls and when commercial interests override what contributors/users/maintainers are trying to get out", "context": "", "use_case": "object storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "How uv got so fast"}, {"id": 741320627, "item_id": 46332539, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332539", "by": "eduardogarza", "date": "2025-12-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "MinIO OSS is apparently no longer maintained?", "excerpt": "I use this for booting up S3-compatible buckets for local development and testing -- paired up with s5cmd, I can seed 15GB and over 60,000 items (seed/mock data) in < 60s... have a perfect replica of a staging environment with Docker containers (api, db, cache, objects) all up in less than 2mins. Super simple to set up for my case and been working great. Previously I used LocalStack S3 but ultimately didn't like the ", "context": "", "use_case": "local S3", "switched_from": "", "story": "Garage \u2013 An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters"}, {"id": 738195472, "item_id": 46137217, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137217", "by": "jdoe1337halo", "date": "2025-12-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use this image on my VPS, it was the last update before they neutered the community version", "excerpt": "I use this image on my VPS, it was the last update before they neutered the community version quay.io/minio/minio:RELEASE.2025-04-22T22-12-26Z", "context": "", "use_case": "object storage on VPS", "switched_from": "", "story": "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"}]}