YouTube Summaries: Deploying MinIO with Go

YouTube Summaries: Deploying MinIO with Go

In our most recent coverage of MinIO YouTube learning, we discussed MJ’s “Essentials for Admins” course. This edition will be covering Will Dinyes’s series for those who wish to deploy MinIO in their working Go (sometimes called Golang) environment. These twelve videos clock in at under an hour—the information is dense, but easily digestible. The only prerequisite

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The Blog Year in Review: Top 10 for 2022

The Blog Year in Review: Top 10 for 2022

This week is always one of reflection. With new outlets pushing their predictions traffic into October and November, we find ourselves taking this week to look back on what we wrote, and more importantly, what our readers read. We had a bang up year on the blog front. We increased pageviews year over year by 80% and increased readers by

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MinIO Replication Best Practices

MinIO Replication Best Practices

We will set up a geographically distributed infrastructure where we have a multi-node multi-drive MinIO cluster in multi-sites across vast distances. This will allow us to truly appreciate replication working at scale to help us understand the infrastructure needed for high availability.

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YouTube Summaries: Essentials for Admins

YouTube Summaries: Essentials for Admins

In our last YouTube summary post [https://blog.min.io/youtube-summary-linux/], we covered Mike “MJ” Johnson’s series on running and deploying MinIO on Linux. This week, we will be focusing on Essentials for Admins—a five-part course by MinIO’s Ravind Kumar for developers and system administrators to understand how object storage works and how it can be applied,

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Rethinking Observability with MinIO and CloudFabrix

Rethinking Observability with MinIO and CloudFabrix

While the growth trajectory for data in general is extraordinary, it is the growth of log files that really stand out. As the heartbeat of digital enterprise, these files contain a remarkable amount of intelligence - across a stunning range, from security to customer behavior to operational performance. The growth of log files, however, presents particular challenges for the enterprise.

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Faster Multi-Site Replication and Resync

Faster Multi-Site Replication and  Resync

First introduced in late 2021, multi-site Active-Active Replication [https://blog.min.io/minio-multi-site-active-active-replication/] has grown to be one of the most impactful MinIO features. MinIO has long had the ability to replicate between buckets to synchronize objects, delete operations and metadata changes, but Multi-site Active-Active Replication goes beyond bucket replication to synchronize all buckets, IAM, security tokens, service accounts and

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Data Stores, Object Stores and the Inevitable Decline of SAN/NAS

Data Stores, Object Stores and the Inevitable Decline of SAN/NAS

Traditionally, the design, acquisition and deployment of storage required specialized skills and the ability to manage a fair amount of complexity to do successfully. Modern object storage has changed that. This is particularly poignant today - where the purchase of SAN and NAS appliances often take months, or longer, to complete. This stands in stark contrast to software defined object

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Building Sustainable Companies - A Guide for Open Source Startups

Building Sustainable Companies - A Guide for Open Source Startups

Recently, MinIO achieved a major milestone, passing the one billion docker downloads mark. Almost simultaneously, MinIO notched its 20,000th member of its public Slack community and its 35,000th GitHub Stargazers - putting the company in the top 250 repositories on the site (out of 28 million repositories). There are some that will say that those are vanity metrics,

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Expose MinIO Tenant Services on EKS using Elastic Load Balancers: Instructions

Expose MinIO Tenant Services on EKS using Elastic Load Balancers: Instructions

This blog post is part two in a series about exposing MinIO tenant services to applications outside of your Amazon EKS cluster. The first blog post provided an overview and comparison of the four methods used for Exposing MinIO Services in AWS EKS Using Elastic Load Balancers [https://blog.min.io/expose-minio-aws-eks-elastic-load-balancers/]. Software-defined MinIO provides distributed high-performance object storage for

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