or rclone serve
Came to say this.
If we're just talking verifying S3 connectivity, simply spinning up "rclone serve s3" appears to be the simplest solution.
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Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
#22Just use the damn file system. Why does everyone have to put HTTP between everything?
Because if you ship a tool with s3 support, the customer can decide if he wants to store in the cloud, or spin up a docker container locally.
Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
#23I use JuiceFS https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs if you think the Chinese are worth the trust
Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
#24> 2026-03-02: Ruohang Feng has forked MinIO to pgsty/minio and is promising to maintain a stable, CVE-patched, distribution.
This is what I went with.
I use it in end to end tests as an S3 simulator that starts and stops instantly and reads & writes to a local directory, - as you'd expect it's great in that role. No complaints. Given the fork's maintainer puts their real name on it & stakes their reputation, you'd assume it can be trusted - but my use case is simpler than most.
Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
#25I use JuiceFS https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs if you think the Chinese are worth the trust
If it's open source, you don't do daily pulls and you have a competent AI to crawl the codebase; why does it matter the ethnicity at this point?
Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
#26I use JuiceFS https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs if you think the Chinese are worth the trust
If it's open source, you don't do daily pulls and you have a competent AI to crawl the codebase; why does it matter the ethnicity at this point?
Ethnicity never mattered (other than for the people that think too many white people are doing something). It's culture, in particular government ties, that are the worry with China.
Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
#27Incus (spiritual successor to LXD, after the fork-off by Canonical) has a simple S3 server built-in.
Isn’t that just minio? At least in LXD it’s minio.
Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
#28A notable mention should also be Versity GW, https://github.com/versity/versitygw/
+1 switched to versity for homelab, been simple and stable as a rock. Point at a directory per bucket and done.
Also discussions few months ago here when healthcheks.io switched to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806348
Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
#29A notable mention should also be Versity GW, https://github.com/versity/versitygw/
I've had good experiences with Versity GW too and it's a shame it's not more well known.
Re: Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
#30I heard good news about SeaweedFS