Kubernetes, Object Storage and Why Appliance Vendors Are in Trouble

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5 points·edogrider··3 comments

Min.io will bite you, if you expect it to work like S3 API, we were bitten by it already as it does not aim for full S3 API implementation and it's not their focus.

So be careful using min.io, as cloud storage abstraction library which helps people to work with multi-cloud. There will be unexpected errors with min.io, as most libraries are using S3 API and min.io is not fully compliant with S3 API.

Can you be more specific about how you were "bitten"? min.io is a drop-in replacement for S3 - you can seamlessly use any S3 client with it.

I'm an engineer at min.io and our focus from the beginning has been to stay S3 compatible. We will continue to uphold our customers' trust and stay compatible with S3.Can you explain in non-speculative terms how that is not our focus?

Please see the issue closed as "WONTFIX" an issue of incompatibility with S3 raised by one member of team [1]. The response from the team:

"Issue: I have problems that minio is not listing directories that it does in AWS. It is listing only directories that is empty.

Response: I am afraid we are not interested in supporting directories at the moment. It is a niche use case to provide POSIX behavior it's not in our interests."

[1] https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/6047

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