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Re: MinIO repository is no longer maintained

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Post by courtcircuits » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 9:05 AM UTC

allovertheworld wrote: post #4

Any good alternatives for local development?

Go for Garage, you can check the docker-compose and the "setup" crate of this project https://github.com/beep-industries/content. There are a few tricks to make it work locally so it generates an API key and bucket declaratively but in the end it does the job

Re: MinIO repository is no longer maintained

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Post by rbbydotdev » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 9:05 AM UTC

Is there not a community fork? Even as is, is it still recommended for use?

Re: MinIO repository is no longer maintained

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Post by Scarjit » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 9:06 AM UTC

allovertheworld wrote: post #4

Any good alternatives for local development?

RustFS is dead simple to setup.

Re: MinIO repository is no longer maintained

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Post by jamiemallers » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 9:07 AM UTC

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Re: MinIO repository is no longer maintained

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Post by gardnr » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 9:08 AM UTC

allovertheworld wrote: post #4

Any good alternatives for local development?

  garaged:
    image: dxflrs/garage:v2.2.0
    ports:
      - "3900:3900"
      - "3901:3901"
      - "3902:3902"
      - "3903:3903"
    volumes:
      - /opt/garage/garage.toml:/etc/garage.toml:ro
      - /opt/garage/meta:/var/lib/garage/meta
      - /opt/garage/data:/var/lib/garage/data

Re: MinIO repository is no longer maintained

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Post by danirod » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 9:08 AM UTC

AIstor. They just slap the word AI anywhere these days.

Re: MinIO repository is no longer maintained

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Post by sschueller » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 9:08 AM UTC

So far for me garage seems to work quite well as an alternative although it does lack some of the features of minio.

Re: MinIO repository is no longer maintained

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Post by muragekibicho » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 9:09 AM UTC

I ran a moderately large opensource service and my chronic back pain was cured the day I stopped maintaining the project.

Working for free is not fun. Having a paid offering with a free community version is not fun. Ultimately, dealing with people who don't pay for your product is not fun. I learnt this the hard way and I guess the MinIO team learnt this as well.

Re: MinIO repository is no longer maintained

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Post by 0xUndefined » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 9:10 AM UTC

PhilippGille wrote: post #3

They point to AIStor as alternative. Other alternatives: https://github.com/deuxfleurs-org/garage https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs https://github.com/supabase/storage https://github.com/scality/cloudserver https://github.com/ceph/ceph Among others

Had great experience with garage for an easy to setup distributed s3 cluster for home lab use (connecting a bunch of labs run by friends in a shared cluster via tailscale/headscale). They offer a "eventual consistency" mode (consistency_mode = dangerous is the setting, so perhaps don't use it for your 7-nines SaaS offering) where your local s3 node will happily accept (and quickly process) requests and it will then duplicate it to other servers later.

Overall great philosophy (target at self-hosting / independence) and clear and easy maintenance, not doing anything fancy, easy to understand architecture and design / operation instructions.

Re: MinIO repository is no longer maintained

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Post by pikachu0625 » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 9:11 AM UTC

allovertheworld wrote: post #4

Any good alternatives for local development?

OS's file system? Implementation cost has been significantly decreased these day. We can just prompt 'use S3 instead of local file system' if we need to use a S3 like service.