Why We Migrated Our Local Environment From MinIO to LocalStack
SingleStore Storage Service is the backbone of many of our key features, including Notebooks and Stage . Built on top of cloud blob storage, it adds a layer of abstraction and additional features tailored to our specific use cases, making it the perfect solution for our storage needs.
We have been using MinIO to mock Amazon S3 for AWS in our development environment. As part of our efforts to improve our processes, we recently decided to move away from MinIO and start using LocalStack. In this blog post, we will present the reasons behind our decision — and what we learned from it.
MinIO has been a crucial tool in our development workflow, allowing us to mock Amazon S3 for local development and testing. With MinIO, we can simulate the behavior of an Amazon S3-compatible storage service, enabling us to develop and test our applications without relying on a live environment. Although this has proven invaluable for speeding up our development cycles and ensuring the reliability of our features, it has also presented some challenges.
While MinIO offers a robust set of features for object storage, it does not fully replicate the complete range of capabilities offered by Amazon S3. This limitation impacted our ability to fully simulate the environment for testing and development purposes, as certain features were missing or behaved differently. As a result, our test coverage was reduced since we were forced to skip some integration tests in the local development.
