I’m using Minio in a client project for binary blob (largely photos, some other uploaded content like PDFs etc) storage.
It’s great that there is an option besides actual S3, but I feel like all the features that would make it truly usable are going to end up in a commercial version, and so I’m desperately looking for alternatives (not necessarily even S3 compatible) that are “true” open source (i.e. not open core/VC backed with a likely open core future).
For those wondering, one of the big things is that Minio has literally 1 key:secret for auth. If you want separate “accounts”, you need to run multiple instances, and then handle vhost (or alternative) addressing yourself.
Minio is always going to be Free Software, every feature that goes to a customer always goes upstream first and validated by our community. We don’t treat upstream and downstream differently.
Feel free to reach out to us at https://slack.minio.io to talk to us about the licensing concerns that you might have we can explain further if you have more questions.
PS: Minio founding team is also GlusterFS founding team.
I haven’t tried using it yet, no. You’re right it is definitely a more complex beast than minio/nfs/etc solutions, and I wonder if it’s too big of a beast for the type of businesses I usually work with.
I’m using Minio in a client project for binary blob (largely photos, some other uploaded content like PDFs etc) storage.
It’s great that there is an option besides actual S3, but I feel like all the features that would make it truly usable are going to end up in a commercial version, and so I’m desperately looking for alternatives (not necessarily even S3 compatible) that are “true” open source (i.e. not open core/VC backed with a likely open core future).
For those wondering, one of the big things is that Minio has literally 1 key:secret for auth. If you want separate “accounts”, you need to run multiple instances, and then handle vhost (or alternative) addressing yourself.
Minio is always going to be Free Software, every feature that goes to a customer always goes upstream first and validated by our community. We don’t treat upstream and downstream differently.
Feel free to reach out to us at https://slack.minio.io to talk to us about the licensing concerns that you might have we can explain further if you have more questions.
PS: Minio founding team is also GlusterFS founding team.
Have you checked Ceph? Hosting a Ceph cluster is far more complex than running a small minio instance but it is LGPL licensed and open source.
I haven’t tried using it yet, no. You’re right it is definitely a more complex beast than minio/nfs/etc solutions, and I wonder if it’s too big of a beast for the type of businesses I usually work with.