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Last updated by Simon Späti

MinIO is an object storage solution that provides an Amazon Web Services S3-compatible API and supports all core S3 features.

MinIO is built to deploy anywhere - public or private cloud, baremetal infrastructure, orchestrated environments, and edge infrastructure.

Since 2025-12-03, it’s in maintenance mode, see . Meaning since then, it’s essentially not an open-source project anymore 😥.

# How to Get Started (OSS)

The OSS version can be run with anything almost. Here are the MacOS version.

Run the following command to install the latest stable MinIO package using  Homebrew. Replace /data with the path to the drive or directory in which you want MinIO to store data.

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brew install minio/stable/minio
minio server /data

Note

If you previously installed minio using brew install minio then it is recommended that you reinstall minio from minio/stable/minio official repo instead.

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brew uninstall minio
brew install minio/stable/minio

The MinIO deployment starts using default root credentials minioadmin:minioadmin. You can test the deployment using the MinIO Console, an embedded web-based object browser built into MinIO Server. Point a web browser running on the host machine to  http://127.0.0.1:9000 and log in with the root credentials. You can use the Browser to create buckets, upload objects, and browse the contents of the MinIO server.

You can also connect using any S3-compatible tool, such as the MinIO Client mc commandline tool. See  Test using MinIO Client mc for more information on using the mc commandline tool. For application developers, see  https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/developers/minio-drivers.html/ to view MinIO SDKs for supported languages.

# History

Some GitHub references:

# Maintenance mode (no more activity)

# Removing Web UI from OSS Version

MinIO, a popular open-source object storage solution, has made significant changes to its community version that have sparked controversy among users. The company has removed key web-based management features from the free version, directing users to either use command-line tools or upgrade to paid plans.

Deprecated Features in MinIO v2.0.0:

  • Account and policy management (web UI)
  • Configuration management (web UI)
  • Bucket management tools (web UI)
  • Administrative console features

# Removed other features: Stopping the release of binary builds and images

Vadim Bauer on LInkedIn:

So how did the rug pull go this time?

  1. Sudden and silent license change back 2021
  2. Remove features from core products, marking SSO,LDAP capabilities as unmaintained. Applying the https://sso.tax
  3. Silently stopping the release of binary builds and images, leaving only the source code

references::

# Alternative Images Provided

On October 23, 2025, the  MinIO project stopped publishing the free, community edition of their namesake Docker container image, requiring developers to build and maintain their own containers from the source code. Because of this, you may also be scrambling to prevent your build pipelines and CI/CD workflows from failing. Secure and Free MinIO Chainguard Containers

Find new built images:
[Secure and Free MinIO Chainguard Containers]( https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/secure-and-free-minio-chainguard-containers

Note to above images

Our image is built using the public source code for MinIO, but with zero CVEs and security hardening. One of the side-effects of this is that it no-longer runs as root by default – be aware of this as it means you might need to change volume permissions etc. You can run it with a simple: docker run cgr.dev/chainguard/minio (minio-client is also available). More info here @adrianmouat.com on Bluesky

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Created 2025-06-19

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