I was at TYPO3 Camp London [https://t3cl25.typo3.com/] recently when Martin Helmich casually dropped that RustFS [https://rustfs.com/en/] was a solid MinIO replacement. That got my attention. I've written about MinIO before - speeding up Gitlab CI [https://www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/how-i-improved-the-speed-of-docker-builds-in-gitlab-ci/] and caching Gitlab assets [https://www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/use-minio-to-cache-gitlab-containers-and-runners/] - and it's been great as a self-hosted S3 alternative. But I'm always up for trying new toys, especially when they promise improvements. Turns out RustFS has been benchmarked against MinIO and is faster across the board [https://github.com/orgs/rustfs/discussions/598#discussion-8952907]. That was enough to convince me to give it a go. SERVER SETUP We're running RustFS on a dedicated Ubuntu server with Hetzner [https://www.hetzner.com/] (our go-to VPS provider). I went with an Intel CX32: * 4 vCPU * 8 GB RAM * 80 GB Disk Note: You'll need an external IPv4 address - rustfs.com only supports IPv4 for setup. INSTALLATION Once your VPS is up, installation is pleasantly straightforward. First, make sure you've got unzip: apt update && apt upgrade apt install zip unzip Then grab the install script [https://rustfs.com/en/download/?platform=linux]: curl -O https://rustfs.com/install_rustfs.sh && bash install_rustfs.sh Follow the CLI prompts and you're sorted. SETUP After installation, hit up the web interface at http://[server-ip]:9000. Default credentials are rustfsadmin for both username and password. Change that immediately by editing: /etc/default/rustfs Once logged in, you can create buckets and extra users or access keys - which is what I've been using for Gitlab CI. **Read time:** 1 mins **Tags:** CLI

I was at TYPO3 Camp London [https://t3cl25.typo3.com/] recently when Martin Helmich casually dropped that RustFS [https://rustfs.com/en/] was a solid MinIO replacement. That got my attention. I've written about MinIO before - speeding up Gitlab CI [https://www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/how-i-improved-the-speed-of-docker-builds-in-gitlab-ci/] and caching Gitlab assets [https://www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/use-minio-to-cache-gitlab-containers-and-runners/] - and it's been great as a self-hosted S3 alternative. But I'm always up for trying new toys, especially when they promise improvements. Turns out RustFS has been benchmarked against MinIO and is faster across the board [https://github.com/orgs/rustfs/discussions/598#discussion-8952907]. That was enough to convince me to give it a go. SERVER SETUP We're running RustFS on a dedicated Ubuntu server with Hetzner [https://www.hetzner.com/] (our go-to VPS provider). I went with an Intel CX32: * 4 vCPU * 8 GB RAM * 80 GB Disk Note: You'll need an external IPv4 address - rustfs.com only supports IPv4 for setup. INSTALLATION Once your VPS is up, installation is pleasantly straightforward. First, make sure you've got unzip: apt update && apt upgrade apt install zip unzip Then grab the install script [https://rustfs.com/en/download/?platform=linux]: curl -O https://rustfs.com/install_rustfs.sh && bash install_rustfs.sh Follow the CLI prompts and you're sorted. SETUP After installation, hit up the web interface at http://[server-ip]:9000. Default credentials are rustfsadmin for both username and password. Change that immediately by editing: /etc/default/rustfs Once logged in, you can create buckets and extra users or access keys - which is what I've been using for Gitlab CI. **Read time:** 1 mins **Tags:** CLI

I was at TYPO3 Camp London [https://t3cl25.typo3.com/] recently when Martin Helmich casually dropped that RustFS [https://rustfs.com/en/] was a solid MinIO replacement. That got my attention. I've written about MinIO before - speeding up Gitlab CI [https://www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/how-i-improved-the-speed-of-docker-builds-in-gitlab-ci/] and caching Gitlab assets [https://www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/use-minio-to-cache-gitlab-containers-and-runners/] - and it's been great as a self-hosted S3 alternative. But I'm always up for trying new toys, especially when they promise improvements. Turns out RustFS has been benchmarked against MinIO and is faster across the board [https://github.com/orgs/rustfs/discussions/598#discussion-8952907]. That was enough to convince me to give it a go. SERVER SETUP We're running RustFS on a dedicated Ubuntu server with Hetzner [https://www.hetzner.com/] (our go-to VPS provider). I went with an Intel CX32: * 4 vCPU * 8 GB RAM * 80 GB Disk Note: You'll need an external IPv4 address - rustfs.com only supports IPv4 for setup. INSTALLATION Once your VPS is up, installation is pleasantly straightforward. First, make sure you've got unzip: apt update && apt upgrade apt install zip unzip Then grab the install script [https://rustfs.com/en/download/?platform=linux]: curl -O https://rustfs.com/install_rustfs.sh && bash install_rustfs.sh Follow the CLI prompts and you're sorted. SETUP After installation, hit up the web interface at http://[server-ip]:9000. Default credentials are rustfsadmin for both username and password. Change that immediately by editing: /etc/default/rustfs Once logged in, you can create buckets and extra users or access keys - which is what I've been using for Gitlab CI. **Read time:** 1 mins **Tags:** CLI