Overview

MinIO is an object storage service based on the Apache License v2.0 open source protocol. It is compatible with the Amazon S3 cloud storage service interface and is ideal for storing large amounts of unstructured data, such as images, videos, log files, backup data, and container/virtual machine images. An object file can be of any size, ranging from a few KB to a maximum of 5TB.

The main advantages are as follows:

• Simple: Minimalism is the guiding design principle of MinIO, and it can be used out of the box. Simplicity reduces the chance of errors, increases normal operation time, and provides reliability while also improving performance.

• High Performance: MinIO is a world-leading object storage service. On standard hardware, read/write speeds can reach up to 183 GB/s and 171 GB/s.

• Scalable: It can establish many small and easy-to-manage clusters, and support cross-data center aggregation of multiple clusters into a super-large resource pool, rather than directly adopting large-scale, uniformly managed distributed clusters.

• Cloud Native: It conforms to the architecture and construction process of all native cloud computing, and includes the latest technologies and concepts of cloud computing, making object storage more friendly to Kubernetes.