Beware the AGPL! you may end with a product orphan from its S3 storage… MinIO has long been a popular open-source S3-compatible storage solution, but their strategy has shifted dramatically—especially since the release of their new AIstor product, now positioned as their main enterprise S3 offering. Over the past year, Read more
Alpha Feature in Production… Good Idea? The most promising approach, journal-based mirroring, offers near real-time replication and faster failover. However, it’s currently an alpha feature in the Ceph CSI driver and relies on rbd-nbd, which introduces significant risks: For documentation on Ceph RBD mirroring see IBM documentation For details, see Read more
MinIO has just announced that the open source project is now in maintenance-only mode: no new features, no regular PR review, only best-effort community support.If your data lake, AI workloads or internal S3-compatible storage rely on MinIO, this is no longer a theoretical risk – it’s an operational one. Over Read more
Introduction In the world of big data, storage solutions are the backbone of any architecture. As an expert solutions architect, I have relied on various storage solutions to ensure data integrity and availability. Recently, I discovered a critical flaw in MinIO’s tiering feature, introduced in RELEASE.2022-11-10T18-20-21Z and still present in Read more