MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

I wonder how many people only use Minio as a localdev S3 alternative.

At least that's all we use it for really

That's how I use it. It seems to also provide a lot of other stuff I don't use.

Every time I used it for more than that I ran into performance and other concerns (like durability and consistency) pretty quickly. I cannot imagine how this is used seriously when there is something like Ceph available.

Turns out most file systems are horrible key-value stores.

I have a 160TB minio cluster running for 4+ years who had dealt beautifully with node outages, one drive failure and the occassional hiccups on the datacenter.

I was okay with not having support because I am not part of their customer base. I was okay with not having the webUI, though I wish they made an option where the webUI would be available for some basic-tier paid customers. But I can not be okay with this move. They are just giving the finger to all the community. They never tried to work out a solution that could let smaller users to contribute or support.

I will seriously have to consider moving to Hetzner object storage.

>I cannot imagine how this is used seriously when there is something like Ceph available.

Adopting Ceph is adopting a Ceph engineer, any use-case with the need and funding to run Ceph on production would easily be able to pay for commercial licenses and/or contribute majorly to this or their own fork. They work in different ball-parks entirely

What is the problem exactly you are facing now?

Yeah CI tests and local dev environments for code that runs against S3 in prod. Right now sifting through the alternatives for whatever is easiest to run as a container in Github actions or docker-compose...

I use it to test my tiny written-from-scratch S3 client in my server app. But then I already have it installed, it already works, and I don't care about updates.

Right now, my problem is that I can not update my minio cluster because I do not know of any trustworthy docker image that I can use, and the version I am on is exposed to (at least) one known CVE.