MinIO stops distributing free Docker images • Hacker News Board

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by angst » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 2:20 AM UTC

zenmac wrote: post #379

c0balt wrote: post #27

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Garage worked for most of my use-cases but it lacks, among other endpoints[0], bucket ACLs and bucket replication. Anonymous access is also an open issue[1]. They are also a comparatively young project and while fully OSS do not, afaik, appear to have a solid long term funding source yet. Though that might be an opportunity to support them, if your company is interested in picking them. [0]: https://garagehq.deuxfleu…

We are also looking into Garage, does it support 206 partial content seeking on the files in the bucket via it's http interface?

Garage should support partial content seeking via its HTTP interface, if it is S3 API compatible which includes support for range requests/206 Partial Content response.

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by ddxv » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 3:18 AM UTC

I've switched to garage and it's been absolutely fantastic. I don't know if it has a UI yet, but it's been rock solid.

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by mikedonovan1987 » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 3:50 AM UTC

Hey Mike Donovan here. I work at Docker and help with the Docker Official Image (DOI) program. If you're interested in a DOI being created to support the MinIO community chime in here: https://github.com/minio/minio/discussions/21655

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by tzahifadida » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 5:41 AM UTC

caymanjim wrote: post #385

baobun wrote: post #383

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> Plenty of others already maintain public OCI images of Minio (Bitnami is one example). Looks like that's coming to an end too. https://community.broadcom.com/tanzu/blogs/beltran-rueda-bor... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45048419

Yeah, I saw that recently. linuxserver.io bundles a lot of apps into OCI images, and I use many of theirs because they tend to be better-designed than official ones—or at least more consistent. And while some people might be intimidated by it, it's not a huge lift to make your own images. I don't mean to trivialize it, because it's at best inconvenient, and can be challenging. In many cases it's only a few minutes of…

Really easy, I made a script to build bitnami images from a command line menu and push it to your dockerhub. It also detects changes in versions and you can rebuild and push again.

https://github.com/tzahifadida/oys-bitnami-builder

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by dimastopel » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 7:02 AM UTC

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Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by a10c » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 7:42 AM UTC

dpedu wrote: post #219

a10c wrote: post #88

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I believe you're forced to have your data backed by a Ceph OSD. Whereas Minio can point to an NFS share on a NAS.

Minio used to be able to do this, but they dropped this feature - "gateway mode" - several years ago.

Minio doesn't need to have first-class support for NFS. You can quite easily point an NFS share mounted as a directory in the Minio container.

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Post by hansmayer » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 8:16 AM UTC

magicmicah85 wrote: post #382

hansmayer wrote: post #358

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> Minio doesn't have to give non-paying users anything, but the story still applies. How on earth does it apply when your complete example story relies on the satisfaction of the paying customers. If you're not paying, you're not a customer - you're a user.

Users have value even when they’re not paying.

They/we certainly do (we are using MinIO as well). But they are NOT paying customer, nor do they pay something back (at least most of us dont), so they should not really feel entitled to the "value" that they were getting for free.

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by genewitch » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 8:28 AM UTC

BozeWolf wrote: post #328

lobsterthief wrote: post #320

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There’s a lot of middleground between hobbyists and your company’s use ;) Most mid-sized publishers I’ve worked with are in the $4-10k/mo range depending on CDN availability

Of course, I agree. My point is that the parent I was replying to replied to “only hobbyists pay full price on aws”. The parent was expecting to get a discount on a 10k monthly bill. It is a lot of money, but not to AWS. You probably wont get (much) discount on 10k a month.

upthread: "[No one] pays full price"

later: "no one who spends more than $10k/month pays full price"

curious, that no one says what their bills are when they say "40-60% discount", right? This thread started because someone mentioned dell/netapp because they were half the price of AWS, all-in.

I notice a lot of threads do this, lately. Not this topic, but topics in general.

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by amouat » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 8:30 AM UTC

johnfn wrote: post #374

MuteXR wrote: post #7

Keep in mind this is the same project that removed all useful functionality from the included web UI in the community edition with the excuse that it was too much effort to maintain. This is another case of VC-funded companies pulling up the ladder behind themselves.

What ladder are they pulling up? Feel free to fork the last valid commit and make a competitor.

The ladder is still there! See that pile of wood there? That's where we put the rungs. And if dig in that hole over there you might even find the extension we removed last week...