S3-compatible object storage — a MinIO fork maintained by PGSTY

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Important

PGSTY Silo (hereinafter “Silo”) is an independent, community-maintained fork of the open-source MinIO server, published by Pigsty from pgsty/silo. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by MinIO, Inc. “MinIO” is used only to identify the upstream project and compatibility lineage.

Note

Renamed from pgsty/minio to pgsty/silo, default branch master → main, on 2026-08-06. Artifacts under the original MinIO identity stay published on the archived minio branch and in releases up to RELEASE.2026-08-04T00-00-00Z.

Overview

PGSTY SILO keeps one maintained release line of the open-source MinIO server alive after upstream ended community distribution: builds, packages, multi-arch images, security fixes, and the full web console. Pigsty runs it in production as its PostgreSQL backup repository.

It follows one rule — the product and its delivery surfaces are renamed; the protocol and your data are not. Everything else lives on silo.pgsty.com.

Related: pgsty/mc client (shipped as mcli) · pgsty/silo-console · pgsty/silo-pkg · pgsty/pigsty

Quick Start

docker run -d --name silo -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 \
  -e MINIO_ROOT_USER=minioadmin \
  -e MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=change-me-long-password \
  -v "$PWD/data:/data" \
  docker.io/pgsty/silo:latest server /data --console-address ":9001"

Console on http://localhost:9001, S3 API on http://localhost:9000. The image bundles the client as mcli:

docker exec silo mcli alias set local http://127.0.0.1:9000 minioadmin change-me-long-password
docker exec silo mcli mb local/demo && docker exec silo mcli ls local

Warning

For production, pin a release, use unique credentials and TLS, monitor the service, keep independent backups, and test recovery. Start from the documentation.

Install

Method	Where
Container	pgsty/silo, multi-arch for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64
Binaries	GitHub Releases — Linux, macOS, Windows on amd64 and arm64
Packages	RPM, DEB, and APK, also via the Pigsty repository
Kubernetes	Helm chart, see Download & Install
Source	go build -o silo . && ./silo --version

Every release ships checksums, SPDX SBOMs, Sigstore-signed manifests, and GitHub build attestations. Installation methods and verification commands are documented at Download & Install; migrating from upstream MinIO — including taking over an existing minio.service and its /etc/default/minio — is covered by the migration guide and the binary & service notes.

Compatibility

The S3 API, MINIO_* variables, minio_* metrics, x-minio-* headers, /minio/* routes, the github.com/minio/* import paths, and the on-disk format (including .minio.sys) are preserved and held in place by a CI compatibility check. Only Silo-owned delivery surfaces change: the silo executable, package, service, Helm chart, and container image — no minio binary alias is installed.

Every divergence from upstream is listed in the code-verified compatibility audit. Treat each release as a downstream upgrade: pin versions, read the release notes, and keep a rollback path.

Security & Contributing

Report vulnerabilities privately as described in SECURITY.md; every fix ships with a public advisory. Contributions are accepted inbound=outbound under AGPL-3.0-or-later with no CLA — only DCO sign-off (git commit -s) is required; see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Contributors

@ZouhairCharef CVE-2026-34986

@mfredenhagen CVE-2026-39883

@pinginfo Notification streaming

@waterkip Documentation links

GitHub does not generate a contributor graph for forks, so CONTRIBUTORS.md — not the Insights page — is this project's attribution record. It names everyone alongside the change or report they contributed.

Background

Upstream wound down its community edition: the web console was cut back to a stub, prebuilt community binaries stopped, and the community repository was archived. Silo exists to keep those deployments running. The fork is a means, not an identity — if upstream restores its community edition, we will narrow our scope and offer the fixes back.

The Manifesto is the project's public commitment in eleven articles, under one discipline: every article is either something already done with public evidence, or something explicitly refused. In short:

• Compatibility contract — the protocol and your data do not change, and every release documents its tested rollback target and path.
• The license cannot change — AGPLv3, no CLA, no copyright aggregation; nobody here, ourselves included, holds enough copyright to relicense on everyone else's behalf.
• The never list, append-only — no paywalling existing features, no registration wall on downloads, no telemetry (upstream's phone-home paths are removed outright), no CLA, no license change, no trademark enforcement against normal use.
• Security and release discipline — a public advisory for every fix, and a release every one to two months, at most a quarter apart. Judge both against the public record.

Essays: MinIO Is Dead · Who Takes Over? · Long Live MinIO · Promise Kept

License & Trademark

Silo is AGPL-3.0-or-later, derived from minio/minio with upstream copyright and third-party notices preserved in NOTICE and CREDITS. MinIO is a trademark of MinIO, Inc.; the name is used here only to identify the upstream project and compatibility lineage.

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