OPEN-SOURCE S3-COMPATIBLE OBJECT STORAGE

S3 Interface Libre Object

Silo is maintained by the Pigsty Community With supply-chain continuity and security updates

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SILO // STORAGE NODE PGSTY-01

S3 API:9000APPLICATION TRAFFIC

OBJECT STORAGE CORE SILO S3-COMPATIBLE

CONSOLE:9001OPERATOR ACCESS

ERASURE SET // DISTRIBUTED DISKS

D01ONLINED02ONLINED03ONLINED04ONLINE

COMMUNITY FORKMAINTAINED BY PIGSTY

KEY METRICS

Maintained in public, visible at a glance

484,163 Docker Pulls 1,938 GitHub Stars 19 Security Fixes 7 Releases

DokployPRODUCT TEMPLATE

RAGFlowDEFAULT COMPOSE

Grafana LokiHELM · BUNDLED SERVICE

OmniaHPC PLATFORM RUNTIME

nixpkgsDISTRIBUTION PACKAGE

PigstyPG BACKUP REPO

DaoCloudPUBLIC IMAGE MIRROR

ModelarDBCI · INTEGRATION

MeasureBACKEND DEPLOYMENT

AgentsMeshCOMPOSE · CI

FiremootREFERENCE COMPOSE · CI

buun-stackKUBERNETES STACK

Open-LutraS3 DEV PROFILE

KukanCOMPOSE MIGRATION

VALUE PROPOSITION

What upstream dropped, SILO picks up

MinIO's community edition gutted its console, stopped shipping binaries, and archived its security updates. SILO restores all three—on the same code, at the same performance.

WEB CONSOLE

The full console, restored

Manage buckets, identity, monitoring, and replication in the browser again

Upstream stripped the AGPL web console down to a stub
SILO ships the full management UI: buckets, IAM, monitoring, site replication
No paywall, no feature gate—the console every operator remembers

The console upstream took away, back in your browser

SILO Console monitoring page showing servers, drives, and capacity

SECURITY PATCHES

Patched, not abandoned

CVEs get fixed here, with advisories next to the code

Upstream's community edition is archived—new CVEs land on no one's desk
19 security fixes shipped on the active release line, each with an advisory
Report privately, triage reproducibly, publish transparently

Security that keeps moving

SECURITY.md

# Active release line · 19 fixes shipped
report: privately
triage: reproducible issues
advisories: published with code
packages: GPG-signed

# Pin · Review · Test · Roll back

RELEASE ARTIFACTS

Binaries you can actually download

From source to signed, runnable packages

No self-build requirement, no detour through a closed commercial download
Versioned binaries, RPM / DEB / APK, and multi-arch container images
GPG-signed packages with published checksums

The delivery surface, maintained

SILO // RELEASE SURFACEVERSIONED · CHECKSUMMED OCIamd64 · arm64 RPMEL compatible DEBDebian · Ubuntu APKAlpine Linux BINserver · client SUMSHA256 checksums ACTIVE RELEASE LINE →

PERFORMANCE

No performance tax

The same hot path as upstream—maintenance only

SILO tracks upstream's code; the storage and S3 hot paths are unchanged
Changes are build, dependency, security, and correctness—not rewrites
Erasure coding, parallelism, and throughput match the version you know

A fork you don't pay for in latency

S3 INTERFACE

The interface your stack already speaks

SILO follows MinIO's established application and operational surface, so evaluation centers on compatibility testing—not redesigning storage access.

S3 Clients → Environment Variables → Command-Line Client →

S3S3 APIApplication interface $minioServer executable ENVMINIO_*Configuration surface RELRELEASE.*Version tags MCmc / mcliOperator workflow IAMIAM + TLSSecurity controls

OBJECT STORAGE CAPABILITIES

Browse the Documentation →

OPERATIONS

Familiar Console, monitoring, and replication workflows

Open Console Docs ↗

USER VOICES

Real migration reports, with the caveat intact

Public third-party records from February–July 2026. They describe individual environments, not universal compatibility or production guarantees.

IN-PLACE MIGRATION

“I’m happy to report it was seamless!”

PRODUCTION USE

“I have this running on a nixos server in my production environment”

REPRODUCED GUIDE

“本記事の手順そのままで動作することが確認できています。”

MAINTENANCE CAVEAT

“it might lack long-term maintenance in the future, so just keep an eye on it.”

MORE FROM THE COMMUNITY · HOVER TO PAUSE · CLICK FOR THE SOURCE

Yingfeng

Founder @ InfiniFlow · RAGFlow

“Using pgsty/minio's fork as the default storage is a reasonable solution right now.”

GitHub · RAGFlow #13840 · 2026-03-31

Mauricio Siu

Creator of Dokploy

“Drop-in replacement: same env vars, same server command, same /data on-disk format, and it restores the full web console upstream had gutted.”

GitHub · Dokploy templates #1012 · 2026-07-15

Debjeet Biswas

Building measure.sh

“This PR switches to a community trusted minio image.”

GitHub · measure #3831 · 2026-06-06

chalukyaj

Author of Silo Operator

“To discover that the community maintained version not only exists, but has had a recent release which outperforms the last published minio image was a delight.”

GitHub · pgsty/minio #30 · 2026-04-19

Clayton Auld

Engineer @ GCI

“Looks like a community fork of MinIO may be the real solution here … this is likely the easiest migration path.”

GitHub · Notesnook #79 · 2026-02-24

kuma_3838

Qiita Author

“最小限の変更で済むため、直近の対応としては最も手軽です。”

Qiita · 2026-02-25

Grafana Loki

Helm chart · values.yaml

“Override the upstream MinIO, Inc. images with the Pigsty (pgsty) community fork to mitigate the unresolved CVE in the abandoned MinIO images.”

GitHub · grafana/loki

Yingfeng

Founder @ InfiniFlow · RAGFlow

“Using pgsty/minio's fork as the default storage is a reasonable solution right now.”

Mauricio Siu

Creator of Dokploy

“Drop-in replacement: same env vars, same server command, same /data on-disk format, and it restores the full web console upstream had gutted.”

Debjeet Biswas

Building measure.sh

“This PR switches to a community trusted minio image.”

chalukyaj

Author of Silo Operator

“To discover that the community maintained version not only exists, but has had a recent release which outperforms the last published minio image was a delight.”

Clayton Auld

Engineer @ GCI

“Looks like a community fork of MinIO may be the real solution here … this is likely the easiest migration path.”

kuma_3838

Qiita Author

“最小限の変更で済むため、直近の対応としては最も手軽です。”

Grafana Loki

Helm chart · values.yaml

“Override the upstream MinIO, Inc. images with the Pigsty (pgsty) community fork to mitigate the unresolved CVE in the abandoned MinIO images.”

Søren Kejser Jensen

ModelarDB · Aalborg University

“Switching from minio/minio to pgsty/minio as neither RustFS and VersityGW seems suitable for a production deployment.”

GitHub · ModelarDB-RS #400 · 2026-06-22

Łukasz Różewicz

RAGFlow Community

“A community fork of MinIO … that restores the admin console and ships patched binaries.”

GitHub · RAGFlow #13840 · 2026-03-28

Software Engineer

“The fork keeps the wire protocol, on-disk format, and mc client compatible with upstream.”

GitHub · pgsty/minio #42 · 2026-07-21

ekko

1Panel Community

“原 minio 官方已不再维护，pgsty 开源社区 fork 重新维护的版本是否考虑”

GitHub · 1Panel #12753 · 2026-05-18

buun-stack

Kubernetes Home Lab

“Uses the pgsty/minio image, since MinIO's upstream Community Edition is archived/EOL; the embedded admin console is restored.”

GitHub · buun-ch/buun-stack · 2026-06-21

Upendra N

GitHub Community

“Thank you for the initiative. Just name it S4 — the next version of S3 😅”

GitHub · pgsty/minio #7 · 2026-03-20

Dokploy Templates

Template documentation

“This template uses pgsty/minio, the actively maintained community fork.”

docs.dokploy.com · 2026-07

Søren Kejser Jensen

ModelarDB · Aalborg University

“Switching from minio/minio to pgsty/minio as neither RustFS and VersityGW seems suitable for a production deployment.”

Łukasz Różewicz

RAGFlow Community

“A community fork of MinIO … that restores the admin console and ships patched binaries.”

Software Engineer

“The fork keeps the wire protocol, on-disk format, and mc client compatible with upstream.”

ekko

1Panel Community

“原 minio 官方已不再维护，pgsty 开源社区 fork 重新维护的版本是否考虑”

buun-stack

Kubernetes Home Lab

“Uses the pgsty/minio image, since MinIO's upstream Community Edition is archived/EOL; the embedded admin console is restored.”

Upendra N

GitHub Community

“Thank you for the initiative. Just name it S4 — the next version of S3 😅”

Dokploy Templates

Template documentation

“This template uses pgsty/minio, the actively maintained community fork.”

MAINTENANCE

A deliberately narrow promise

SILO exists for continuity across existing MinIO-compatible deployments—not an unlimited product roadmap.

MAINTAINED SURFACE

What stays maintained

Builds and dependencies for the active release line
Applicable security fixes and advisories
Focused fixes for reproducible defects
Versioned artifacts and documentation

EXPLICIT BOUNDARY

What is not promised

A full continuation of the upstream roadmap
Historical releases or multiple support branches
Untested, item-by-item compatibility guarantees
Response, remediation, or release-time SLAs

DOWNLOAD

Get SILO

Choose the server or admin client first, then use the install path that matches your operating system, architecture, and deployment model.

DATA SERVICE

SILO Server

Server binaries, container images, Linux packages, source, and Pigsty Ansible automation.

LinuxDockerKubernetesAnsiblemacOSWindows

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ADMIN CLI

mcli Client

A compatible command-line client for buckets, objects, identity, cluster administration, and daily operations.

LinuxmacOSWindowsDockerSource

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