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MinIO is now distributed as source code only
Important: The MinIO community edition is now distributed as source code only. We will no longer provide pre-compiled binary releases for the community version.
You want to run MinIO? You need to compile it first!.
You want to run a docker image? You need to build it first!
Drama is here: https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/21647
I see I will have to migrate to something else ...
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So, what's so bad with compiling software? I see they have some Dockerfile configs as well... is it so hard to run "docker build -t minio ." ?
MinIO is slowly locking things down. If I remember correctly, most of the features in the community edition of their UI were completely removed.
I mean I kinda expected MinIO to continue going downhill, but no longer publishing Docker images sure is... a choice.
Especially doubling down with a recent security patch (a seemingly nasty vulnerability too) is even wilder.
But this docker image is downloading already compiled packages from dl.min.io. they stopped building that packages ...
https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/Dockerfile.release
Prime example of how to be an a%h*le to the open-source community, after all those countless hours of contributions...
Not only docker images but they stopped building packages and uploading them on dl.min.io. Just before CVE 8.1 https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-jjjj-jwhf-8rgr
Now there are a lot of MinIO instances that will be probably never updated, because no one will notice that on dl.min.io latest version is old version without security path.
Maybe if the community using it would fork and take over, this would be solved.
If they don't, they should pray someone codes a new alternative for a while, until it becomes unsustainable too...
This just following the route of open source projects locking certain features down because big providers just sell their hosted services and give them almost nothing on return.
Same way with Plausible, n8n.
It sucks for us small users but it's understandable they feel like they are being leeched off.
https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/README.md?plain=1#L15
MinIO even recommends building documentation, and then, after reading it, compiling the MinIO package. The next step is building a Docker image. This all sounds like a joke.
I was actually considering a MinIO-based storage offering versus a Virtualizor-based Storage VPS, but wasn't too keen on it. I'm glad I didn't go MinIO.
Hi,
well it seems all expect software that is or is based on open source to be free. How many people pay for Firefox? Proxmox? And all other stuff that is out there where further development is pushed by companies/foundations/what ever entities.
I wonder why people wonder that a company will stop wiping the asses of all people out there who wants to enjoy feature rich software for free.
Is there anyone here present who will like the idea to pay employees to develop a software to offer it as a commercial product while 3rd party people who contribute 0 will just use your software to make money or solve what ever problem they have for free?
How many mother theresia's / jesus are currently reading this?
People invest time and / or money in software. Some people start something in their (free) time, maybe with some mates and develop something. They are happy to get acknowledgement by the community in return and maybe here and there some job offers as they have a nice reference.
Some might invest their time and / or money to make a living from it... starting to offer paid support ... if thats not enough $$$ then forking a paid and a free/community edition and if this is still not enough $$$ reducing the features and if this still not enough stopping to do other's (admin)work by stopping to create easy to install precompiled and well documented versions of their software while those who complain contributed actually nothing.
Will you not feel like an idiot to allow this people to continue using your software for free?
I mean if its all hobby and if you just work on it for fun and give a sh*** about who ever and what ever might use it, complain about bugs or what ever, then its a different story.
But if you invest work to pay your bills then you will not like your work being simply downloaded and used and in many many cases being actually used by companies who will make money based on your service and report bugs in your git they expect you to fix... for free of course
In good old times there was nothing ever precompiled. It was not even well documented.
You downloaded what ever source code and hoped it will just compile ( not talking about that what ever you compiled will actually work or just format your pc ). If it did not work, you will run into the IRC channels, mailing lists or source code and ask for help to make it somehow work.
Nowadays it seems everyone expecting free software to be 1 click installs, running out of the box, feature rich, bug free and well maintained.... really? I mean... seriously? Let me know where you work, i will ask people to just take it away from you... you worked for it... but hey... if you expect others to give their work to you, maybe you should expect them to ask you for your work... for free of course... and please dont forget to bug fix it and document it well, so its easy and brainless to work with :-)
Anyone tried this?
https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
Yeah, that move stirred up a hornet’s nest. It’s one thing to limit enterprise features — it’s another to make the community build from source just to use a storage server.
Feels like MinIO pulled a “RedHat maneuver”: still open source technically, but not practically friendly. Their argument is “security and license control,” but in reality it’s about funneling users to their subscription.
If you’re looking to migrate, a few decent alternatives:
SeaweedFS – lightweight and fast, decent S3 compatibility.
Garage – actively maintained, Rust-based, good for smaller clusters.
Ceph – overkill for a 1-node setup but great in scale.
Zenko or OpenIO if you want to experiment.
Docker-only users are probably the most annoyed. Having to build every update manually kind of defeats the “just run and forget” appeal.
Hello chatgpt thank you for your input now stop
Some people were recommending RustFS, but I haven't tried it myself
Have used it and it's working well on my very small cluster. Not sure how it performs on larger ones. An admin ui is in development apparently: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/blog/2025-03-admin-ui/
As I hate nothing more than docker I'm always working on un-dockering any stupid docker to get to the real stuff... and throwing docker out the window on the way.
You need to define the size of your disks which is really annoying on VPSes, since they don't act the same as actual dedicated servers.
It also really pushed redundancy, which is not needed on VPSes. I like rustfs more.
How so?
But then it says:
Also during my testing I don't think I had problems with setting disk size, it uses the filesystem of the OS anyway so it's more like a maximum size.
For redundancy yes, i guess it depends on the use-case. GarageHQ also say they don't (and won't) support Erasure Coding since it would complicate data placing and synchronization. EC was supported on MinIO iirc which allows for more storage efficiency.
@JohnFilch123 any comment on garage?
I don't like to dictate how big my disks are. I could also want to store other stuff, I could also want to remove other stuff and allow it to get bigger.
Personal skill issue, but otherwise it's perfectly fine software.
All software I run in prod says this. Erases all liability from my side and gives it to my employer.
I agree to some extent. You mention Proxmox. At least with them, and looking at the companies i work with (aside from the lowend stuff), the majority have paid licenses for their "production" environment. For their "testing" environment, not so much. Both for PVE as well as PBS. So i think their business model works quite well. Put out a "free" special edition for testing (that can also used by hobbyists), then offer the business license with support and reliability/tested features for a decent price (with price increases based on Support Requirements/Times,...).
Where i agree with you is that pre-compiled is not always the best option. Its become such a nuisance with the whole docker, flatpak,... stuff - where so much software has its developers expecting to be shipped that way. No easy/clear guidance on how to compile from source and less software being part of the linux/bsd distributions software packages/repositories.
I can only say positive things. Easy to install (I use it in docker), easy to upgrade, easy to maintain, easy to cluster.
crazy, was considering deploying it not too long ago, absolutely glad i didnt. would have caused a headache for me now. Handled in the worst way possible lmao
I am praying everyday that Garage will not follow MinIO's example but it is possible.
I think the problem with minio is that its price is very high. It basically compete with all managed provider, and seems they search client with huge storage capacity needs, with just one benefit, self hosted. The business opportunity is not that broad imo 🤔
I expect they provide something like the managed storage, or maybe additional feature targeting smaller company, etc with simple subscription pricing. Kind of proxmox way of pricing.
This dude must be fun at parties, very Blizzard's "Do you guys not have phones?!" moment
Nothing wrong by itself. It's that they used to do it and this comes after they deleted a lot of features from the free version then auto-updated without asking you. It doesn't earn you customer trust.
Dump 'em