AB of Gluster fame, is off working on another kick-butt storage project. Again, its in the Software Defined Storage realm, this time its called Minio! A play on the minimal-io phrase/mindset. Written in go, the focus is a simple, easy to deploy and use 100% S3 compatible, object based storage platform.

I talked about this project here, nearly two years ago when the project was just initially getting off the ground. Today, you’ve got  full blown storage serve along with a full blow client for interacting with the server and other S3 compatible services!.

Some of the features are:

• Written in go, super easy to update/develop in or against.
• Native integrated replication.
• 100% Amazon S3 compatible.
• Erasure Code & Bitrot Protection
• No need for RAID
• Platform agnostic
• Already Docker containerized

To emphasize the ease of use, I was able to get a fully functioning multi-datacenter replicated environment installed and configured in less than an hour!

1. First, I built a VM in each datacenter. I added twelve 20gb drives to each VM, partitioned and formatted them as XFS. Then mounted them under /srv/b, /srv/c, etc..
2. Then I started the Minio server, pointing to the newly configured drives: 
3. Next step was to log into the UI and create the buckets and upload the files I wanted to replicate. This all can be done from the CLI as well:
4. Then all I had to do was set up replication:

Pretty amazing that I can set all of that up in under an hour! I’m super excited to see the success of this product. I can think of a TON of use cases myself!

1. Off-site replication of backups
2. Veeam backup destination
3. Hospital PACS data
4. Logs
5. Video
6. Documents
7. Containers
8. VM’s