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Before anyone gets excited, know that Minio only just started supporting clusters of multiple machines, and that it is severely limited: "As with Minio in stand

by alrs 10y ago

Before anyone gets excited, know that Minio only just started supporting clusters of multiple machines, and that it is severely limited: "As with Minio in stand-alone mode, distributed Minio has a per tenant limit of minimum 4 and maximum 16 drives"[0]. They built a toy object store while blogging aggressively. Openstack Swift or Redhat Ceph are still the only real open-source object store players, AFAIK. [0]http://docs.minio.io/docs/distributed-minio-quickstart-guide http://docs.minio.io/docs/distributed-minio-quickstart-guide

ReverseCold 10y ago
It's good for using in house storage for things that require S3.
- alrs 10y ago
  I'd use an object store that can scale horizontally, and has. https://github.com/openstack/swift3 https://github.com/openstack/swift3
unlocksmith 10y ago
Minio is designed to work in conjunction with Kubernetes and Mesos like external orchestrators. GlusterFS, Ceph and Swift has builtin orchestration. So when you measure Minio's scalability, you should measure Kubernetes instead. Multi-tenant cloud-native architecture requires each tenant to be intentionally kept small (limited by the failure domain). This way, when you scale from few hundred tenants to millions, your complexity doesn't scale proportionately. Million'th instance of Minio is as simple as its first instance. If you are looking for a global namespace, simply use ngnix like proxy load-balancers in the front. Orchestration tools are well understood at scale unlike Ceph and Swift. Building monolithic distributed systems has a number of challenges. They do not scale beyond a point. Failure may take down the entire site. Troubleshooting is hard. No CI/CD. Entire system has to be upgraded at once with planned downtime. Security breach exposes the whole system.. -ab Architect (Minio and formerly GlusterFS)
durich 10y ago
Have anyone tried libres3 from Skylable?

by alrs 10y ago

ReverseCold 10y ago

It's good for using in house storage for things that require S3.

alrs 10y ago
I'd use an object store that can scale horizontally, and has. https://github.com/openstack/swift3 https://github.com/openstack/swift3

unlocksmith 10y ago

Minio is designed to work in conjunction with Kubernetes and Mesos like external orchestrators. GlusterFS, Ceph and Swift has builtin orchestration. So when you measure Minio's scalability, you should measure Kubernetes instead. Multi-tenant cloud-native architecture requires each tenant to be intentionally kept small (limited by the failure domain). This way, when you scale from few hundred tenants to millions, your complexity doesn't scale proportionately. Million'th instance of Minio is as simple as its first instance. If you are looking for a global namespace, simply use ngnix like proxy load-balancers in the front. Orchestration tools are well understood at scale unlike Ceph and Swift. Building monolithic distributed systems has a number of challenges. They do not scale beyond a point. Failure may take down the entire site. Troubleshooting is hard. No CI/CD. Entire system has to be upgraded at once with planned downtime. Security breach exposes the whole system.. -ab Architect (Minio and formerly GlusterFS)

durich 10y ago

Have anyone tried libres3 from Skylable?