RustFS on Coolify

Replacing MinIO with RustFS.Amazon S3 is cloud-based object storage. You probably know that. You might also know that S3’s API is one commonly implemented by other S3-compatible storage providers like Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, and Wasabi. It took me a while to realize that MinIO is a storage provider whose software I could self-host. So I could have S3 buckets for web apps and backups that use servers I’ve already got. Riskier than using huge providers with enterprise-grade uptime and redundancy, but cheaper and sometimes faster. I’m telling you all this because I had been using MinIO for a while, hosted with Coolify, and interacting with it locally via Transmit and the handy mc CLI client. MinIO offered a web-based admin console that made it easy to manage buckets and API keys. In May 2025 MinIO stripped the admin console out of the Community Edition, and by February 2026 the project repository was declared “no longer maintained.” MinIO is popular enough that replacement projects…