Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

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Post by rmoff » Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 8:21 AM UTC

Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
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Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

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Post by sdcfgy » Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 9:52 AM UTC

Just use the damn file system. Why does everyone have to put HTTP between everything?

Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

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Post by pveierland » Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 9:54 AM UTC

Garage added an automatic configuration feature in v2.3.0 that makes it easier to set up single nodes:

  garage server --single-node --default-bucket

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/quick-start/

Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

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Post by prologic » Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 10:02 AM UTC

One alternative worth looking at is S2: https://github.com/mojatter/s2

Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

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Post by rugma » Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 10:02 AM UTC

Rustfs, works pretty well for me

Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

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Post by xienze » Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 10:02 AM UTC

sdcfgy wrote: post #2

Just use the damn file system. Why does everyone have to put HTTP between everything?

Because you might be running something that only talks S3 and want to point it at something local.

Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

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Post by SSLy » Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 10:02 AM UTC

or rclone serve

Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

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Post by Tostino » Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 10:03 AM UTC

sdcfgy wrote: post #2

Just use the damn file system. Why does everyone have to put HTTP between everything?

Because you want to mock the tools you are going to use in production locally or in CI. Really good reasons to not totally change what you are doing in your app between environments.

Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

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Post by wink » Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 10:03 AM UTC

sdcfgy wrote: post #2

Just use the damn file system. Why does everyone have to put HTTP between everything?

Because this is about having a local standin for S3, which (in a production deploy) often solves a different problem than a (local) filesystem.

This post does not even mention the S3 API as a replacement for a filesystem.

Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

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Post by dalton74 » Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 10:05 AM UTC

For single-node local S3, I often just use `s3fs` mounting a local directory. MinIO always felt like overkill for simple dev.