I've been using the minio-go client for S3-compatible storage abstraction in a project of mine. This new change putting the minio project into maintenance mode means no new features or bug fixes, which is concerning for something meant to be a stable abstraction layer
Need to start reconsidering the approach now and looking for alternatives
Does anyone have any recommendations for a simple S3-wrapper to a standard dir? I've got a few apps/services that can send data to S3 (or S3 compatible services) that I want to point to a local server I have, but they don't support SFTP or any of the more "primitive" solutions. I did use a python local-s3 thing, but it was... not good.
Is this not the best thing that could happen? Like now its in maintenance, it can be forked without any potential license change in the future, or any new features that are in that license change... This allows anyone to continue working on this, right? Or did i miss something?
A lot of them actually. Ceph personally I've used. But there's a ton, some open source, some paid. Backblaze has a product Buckets or something. Dell powerscale. Cloudian has one. Nutanix has one.
I'm both shocked and not surprised. Lots of questions: Are they doing that bad from the outcry? Or are they just keeping a private version and going completely commercial only? If so, how do they bypass the AGPL in doing so, I assume they had contributions under the AGPL.
for those looking for a simple and reliable self hosted S3 thing, check out Garage . it's much simpler - no web ui, no fancy RS coding, no VC-backed AI company, just some french nerds making a very solid tool.
fwiw while they do produce Docker containers for it, it's also extremely simple to run without that - it's a single binary and running it with systemd is unsurprisingly simple[1].
I've been using the minio-go client for S3-compatible storage abstraction in a project of mine. This new change putting the minio project into maintenance mode means no new features or bug fixes, which is concerning for something meant to be a stable abstraction layer
Need to start reconsidering the approach now and looking for alternatives
I thought they were pivoting towards close it and trying to monetize this?
That got backlash so now it’s just getting dropped entirely?
People get to do whatever they want but bit jarring to go from this is worth something people will pay for to maintenance mode in quick succession
> I thought they were pivoting towards close it and trying to monetize this?
That's literally what the commit shows that they're doing?
> *This project is currently under maintenance and is not accepting new changes.*
> For enterprise support and actively maintained versions, please see MinIO SloppyAISlop (not actual name)
They cite a proprietary alternative they offer for enterprises. So yes they pivoted to a monetized offering and are just dropping the open source one.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a simple S3-wrapper to a standard dir? I've got a few apps/services that can send data to S3 (or S3 compatible services) that I want to point to a local server I have, but they don't support SFTP or any of the more "primitive" solutions. I did use a python local-s3 thing, but it was... not good.
You could perhaps checkout https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
please copy and paste outrage from previous discussions to not waste more time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665452
Is this not the best thing that could happen? Like now its in maintenance, it can be forked without any potential license change in the future, or any new features that are in that license change... This allows anyone to continue working on this, right? Or did i miss something?
> ... it can be forked without any potential license change in the future ...
It is useful to remember that one may fork at the commit before a license change.
Pretty sure you can’t retroactively apply a restrictive license, so that was never a concern.
Any efforts to consolidate around a community fork yet?
Is this just the open source portion? Minio is now a fully paid product then?
"For enterprise support and actively maintained versions, please see MinIO AIStor."
Probably yes.
Any good alternatives?
Seaweed and garage (tried both, still using seaweed)
A lot of them actually. Ceph personally I've used. But there's a ton, some open source, some paid. Backblaze has a product Buckets or something. Dell powerscale. Cloudian has one. Nutanix has one.
I saw this referenced a few days ago. Haven't investigated it at all.
https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
Edit: jeez, three of us all at once...
This one is usually the most recommended: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
seaweedfs
Have heard good things about Garage (https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/).
Am forced to use MinIO for certain products now but will eventually move to better eventually. Garage is high on my list of alternatives.
Hopefully no one is shocked or surprised.
I'm both shocked and not surprised. Lots of questions: Are they doing that bad from the outcry? Or are they just keeping a private version and going completely commercial only? If so, how do they bypass the AGPL in doing so, I assume they had contributions under the AGPL.
"For enterprise support and actively maintained versions, please see MinIO AIStor."
Commercial only, they will replace the agpl contributions from external people. (Or at least they will say that)
for those looking for a simple and reliable self hosted S3 thing, check out Garage . it's much simpler - no web ui, no fancy RS coding, no VC-backed AI company, just some french nerds making a very solid tool.
fwiw while they do produce Docker containers for it, it's also extremely simple to run without that - it's a single binary and running it with systemd is unsurprisingly simple[1].
0: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
1: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/cookbook/system...
Oh, no! Anyway... Maybe it's for the best seeing as it's AGPL. I won't go within 39.5 feet of infected software like that, so no loss for me.