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Kubernetes Storage Solutions: A Practical Guide for Diverse Workloads, Including AI/ML

AJ AJ on | 16 June 2025

We were talking with a well-respected industry analyst the other day and he challenged us to articulate why Kubernetes is so important to Object Storage. It got us thinking that this was a topic worthy of our time, and yours. Why Kubernetes Demands More Than Just Stateless Apps At the most basic level, the value of Kubernetes lies in its

Enhance Search with AIStor and OpenSearch

AJ AJ on AIStor | 5 February 2025

In this post we look at how search, and specifically OpenSearch can help us identify patterns or see trends in our ever growing data.

AIStor on RedHat OpenShift for Local development

AJ AJ on Red Hat OpenShift | 29 January 2025

Running AIStor on OpenShift enables enterprises to achieve cloud-native elasticity on their hardware or cloud instance of choice, balance cost, capacity and performance.

AIStor on ROSA

AJ AJ on AIStor | 8 January 2025

Lately, there has been a trend in the industry to bring data “closer” to home. The result is that organizations now want to keep their data on servers that they own, in their own datacenter or at a colocation provider.

AIStor Best Practices for Updates and Restarts

AJ AJ on Best Practices | 18 December 2024

Deep dive into AIStor mindset on how we do and recommend updates and restarts with AIStor.

Network configurations to make the most of AIStor

AJ AJ on AIStor | 11 December 2024

We’ll dive deep into the network configurations with which you can configure AIStor to the different replication strategies and network topologies that can be used to ensure your data is stored and accessed efficiently across multiple AIStor deployments.

AI/ML’s Sous-Chef: Why your Second Hire should be a DevOps Engineer

AJ AJ on AI/ML | 4 December 2024

Your DevOps Engineer’s customer should be your AI/ML Engineering Team. The DevOps Engineer is there to ease the friction points in infrastructure so AI/ML folks can focus on the task at hand. Any issues that come with the infrastructure should be the responsibility of the DevOps Engineer.

Build a CI/CD Pipeline for your AI/ML infrastructure

AJ AJ on DevOps | 27 November 2024

In this tutorial, we’ll bake the MinIO binary and the service dependencies, such as the username and group required for MinIO. We are baking this instead of frying because these will remain the same no matter how we configure and launch our image.

AI/ML Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Foundations

AJ AJ on DevOps | 20 November 2024

Have you ever wondered how the big dogs with hundreds of apps and millions of users manage their Continuous Integration (Builds) and Continuous Delivery (Deployments) workflows?

A Redesigned Global Console for AI-Centric Workloads

AJ AJ on AIStor | 13 November 2024

The MinIO Console has been an evolving product for several years now. Every time we learn, we think about how to improve this incredibly important part of our interaction framework. First came the Console, which saw massive adoption within a year of its introduction. More than 10K organizations to be more specific.Next came the enterprise Console. That moved from

AI/ML workflows with AIStor and Metaflow

AJ AJ on AI/ML | 6 November 2024

AIStor and Metaflow can be deployed anywhere on any type of infrastructure. In fact more often than not we have folks deploying AIStor and metaflow alongside each other as part of the deployment pipeline.

Managing AI workloads with Tagging and Policies

AJ AJ on Modern Data Lakes | 30 October 2024

Object tags give you greater power. You now have the ability to categorize by up to ten dimensions. If you want to add the diagram to a project, then all you have to do is tag it appropriately.

AI Data Workflows with Kafka and MinIO

AJ AJ on Apache Kafka | 23 October 2024

AIStor is a foundational component for creating and executing complex data workflows. At the core of this event-driven functionality is MinIO bucket notifications using Kafka.

Working with Small Objects in AI/ML workloads

AJ AJ on Operator's Guide | 16 October 2024

Cloud-native AI/ML workloads push storage to the limit with many small files. AIStor combines metadata and data to optimize small file operations.

Tame the AI beast with Monitoring and Alerting

AJ AJ on AI/ML | 9 October 2024

In this post we’ll show you how you visualize the cluster metrics in a web browser and also we’ll set up alerting so that when something like a drive needs to be replaced or drive runs out of space we can get alerted for it.

Git-like versioning for your AI Data

AJ AJ on AI/ML | 2 October 2024

You’ve surely version controlled code in the past. But have you version controlled your data? Did you ever want to collaborate on large sets of data with various teams without committing a large chunk?

We Tried the Dell ObjectScale Community Edition, It Wasn’t Pretty

AJ AJ on Performance | 25 September 2024

Dell generally focused on the filer game, but they dabble in object storage and have a very old offering, ECS. That makes sense, it was a step up from tape and wasn’t suited for dynamic workloads like HDFS modernization or database workloads. Needless to say, AI was out of the question. For a few years now, Dell has been

ACID Transactions with Iceberg on AIStor

AJ AJ on Apache Iceberg | 18 September 2024

Pairing the Iceberg table format with AIStor creates a powerful, flexible and extensible lakehouse platform. The Iceberg Table Spec declares a table format that is designed to manage “a large, slow-changing collection” of files or objects stored in a distributed system.

Migrating from HDFS to AIStor

AJ AJ on Modern Data Lakes | 11 September 2024

Take advantage of cloud native, Kubernetes-oriented, microservices-based architectures with object storage.

Gone [to Prod] in 60 Seconds

AJ AJ on Cloud Operating Model | 4 September 2024

In this post we’ll show you how quickly you can get a production grade of MinIO cluster up and running in just a few seconds. Not only that, but we’ll also show you how you can expand that cluster quickly in just a few seconds as well.

MinIO Blog Posts by AJ