I mean, I understand where they are coming from — minio is an s3 object store that integrates remarkably well into the whole containerized ecosystem, but there’

I mean, I understand where they are coming from — minio is an s3 object store that integrates remarkably well into the whole containerized ecosystem, but there’s definitely something to be said for “old” tech. Just to give an example, having been bitten more than just a few times in the past, I personally am hesitant to use minio and the likes because the landscape changes so fast. I don’t really understand minio’s business model, but do know they’re heavily VC funded and are likely not making a profit right now. This begs the question whether it is a safe bet. On the other hand, we could buy some storage appliance from a reputable brand and have an s3 compatible API there. I know that when I’m buying Dell or whatever the company isn’t going away any time soon, and if something’s wrong, I can get a Dell engineer to our datacenter in a few hours of time. Lastly, I don’t really want to containerize my storage. I always consider storage and other state something I want to keep out of kubernetes, and treat it as an external service to kubernetes. There are quite a few things that can go wrong when running these services inside kubernetes, and in my experience things just stay a lot simpler if you just stick to VMs for this type of stuff. YMMV.