Alternatives to MinIO

[amotl]

@alexanderankin told us at testcontainers/testcontainers-python#932 (comment):

Minio recently stopped providing compiled binaries too so I think foss may stop supporting them soon, depending on what we learn next about minio.

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.

-- https://github.com/minio/minio#source-only-distribution

[amotl]

Let's collect a few discoveries here.

[amotl]

I discovered Minimus, but it looks like it isn't an alternative if you need to authenticate to the OCI registry?

• https://www.minimus.io/post/minio-docker-image-changes-how-to-find-a-secure-minio-alternative
• https://docs.minimus.io/foundations/authentication

[amotl]

Another discovery is FractalBits, a high-performance S3-compatible object storage, currently in beta.

• https://fractalbits.com/
• https://github.com/fractalbits-labs/fractalbits-main
• https://fractalbits.com/blog/why-we-built-another-object-storage/

[edgarrmondragon]

There's also RustFS:

• https://rustfs.com/

[amotl]

Sweet. Thank you! 💯

$ docker run --rm docker.io/rustfs/rustfs --version
Initializing data directories: /data
OBS log directory not configured and logs outputs to stdout
!!!WARNING: Using default RUSTFS_ACCESS_KEY or RUSTFS_SECRET_KEY. Override them in production!
Starting: /usr/bin/rustfs --version  /data
rustfs 1.0.0-alpha.73
build time   : 2025-12-11 02:26:10 +00:00
build profile: release
build os     : linux-x86_64
rust version : rustc 1.91.1 (ed61e7d7e 2025-11-07)
rust channel : stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
git branch   :
git commit   : fba201df3dde0581c393fac188719bb5cd587854
git tag      : 1.0.0-alpha.73
git status   :