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End of MinIO: Switch to Pigsty

Minio developers marked the repository as archived early in Feb 2026. What does this mean for self-hosters and open-source developers? What alternative do we have now? Read on to find more.

Posted by Simar Mann Singh on

Introduction

In early February 2026, one of the cornerstone projects in the cloud-native stack — MinIO, an open-source S3-compatible object storage system — underwent a fundamental shift. The project’s official GitHub repository (minio/minio) was marked as archived and set to read-only, effectively ending active maintenance by the original maintainers. But not all hopes are lost.

For years, MinIO has been a go-to solution for self-hosted object storage: lightweight, scalable, and compatible with the Amazon S3 API. Its popularity made it integral to a wide range of workloads — from Kubernetes clusters to CI/CD artifact stores, machine learning pipelines, and foundational backups for distributed systems. I myself use it as a self-hosted service to store data from various services.

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