Keep CI and local stacks running by using a MinIO image we build and publish ourselves

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Summary

Since MinIO stopped publishing images, the MinIO server and mc client that our local development stack and CI tests use as an S3 stand-in have disappeared from one registry after another (Docker Hub, then quay.io, then a Minimus registry that is announced to shut down in October 2026). Each change broke the Backend Tests check on every open pull request at once.

This PR moves both compose files to an image we build and publish ourselves, insectai/minio, built from pinned source tags of the community-maintained MinIO forks by RolnickLab/minio-image. The insectai Docker Hub organisation is a Docker-Sponsored Open Source namespace, so anonymous pulls from CI runners are not rate limited. It also fixes the bucket setup script, which had been failing silently with current mc releases, and makes the stacks wait for that setup before Django starts.

Closes #1445

List of Changes

1. Local and CI stacks pull the MinIO server and mc from our own image, pinned by digest, for both the minio server and the minio-init bucket-setup container.
2. Bucket setup works again with current mc (mc alias set instead of the removed mc config host add) and stops on the first error instead of exiting 0, so missing buckets fail the container rather than surfacing later as 403s in tests.
3. Django waits for the bucket setup to finish (service_completed_successfully) in both compose files, and the CI job stops when that setup fails instead of running the tests against an empty store.
4. The local minio service no longer needs a user: root override, because the image runs as root by default like the historical official one, so existing development volumes keep working.

Detailed Description

The quay.io docker minio image we were using for a replacment of the removed official version was removed. This switches to an alleged drop in replacment at minimus.io. [updated] This switches to insectai/minio, an image we build and publish ourselves. Two intermediate steps are in this branch's history: a Minimus image (its registry is announced to shut down in October 2026) and a Chainguard image pinned by digest (its free tier offers only a moving latest tag).

This may affect dev boxes, including CI containers, but should not affect production or stage boxes, which do not use minio.

[updated] Why an image of our own: upstream MinIO archived its source repositories and stopped serving binaries, so "download the official binaries" is no longer possible. The image is compiled from pinned tags of pgsty/silo (server) and pgsty/mc (client), the actively maintained forks with published security fixes, and the build verifies the checked-out commit against a pinned SHA. The bump procedure is in the image repository's README.

How to Test the Changes

• docker system prune -a --volumes
• docker compose -f docker-compose.ci.yml up
• ...
• docker compose up
• ...
• verify that minio:9001 works

[updated] Verified on this branch: the CI compose minio + minio-init pair creates both buckets and sets them public with the published digest; an anonymous GET of an object in the test bucket succeeds; an anonymous docker pull of the digest from a logged-out Docker config works; and Backend Tests are green.

Deployment Notes

I have no idea if this replacement is legitimate, and using minio is probably a major kluge at this point which shoould be replaced with a different s3 mock. [updated] The replacement is now an image we control: the server and client are compiled from pinned tags and commits of the maintained community forks, so its provenance is no longer in question. Whether to replace MinIO with a different S3 mock altogether remains an open question. A follow-up will create the buckets inside the image at startup so the minio-init container can go away.

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Both Compose configurations now use reg.mini.dev/minio:latest for the minio and minio-init services.

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MinIO image configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Align MinIO images across Compose configurations docker-compose.ci.yml, docker-compose.yml	The minio and minio-init services in both files now use reg.mini.dev/minio:latest.

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The configured image supports the commands needed for local and CI MinIO startup. No actionable merge-blocking issue remains after normal checks.

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The replacement image is pinned, and the new startup checks better contain initialization failures. The remaining design question is whether the selected image has been validated for use with local and CI storage credentials. No production deployment change is established.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: The replacement image becomes a shared trust dependency for the storage server and the initializer that receives root storage credentials. Digest pinning fixes the selected bytes, but the available evidence does not establish validation of that image's provenance or behavior.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The selected image executes in local and CI storage services with access to their configured storage credentials and MinIO data. Available deployment evidence does not establish that production or stage uses these Compose stacks.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If the selected replacement image were untrustworthy, its server or initializer process could use the storage credentials supplied to its container. This is a trust-path assessment, not evidence that the image is compromised.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The image is pinned by digest. MinIO health gates initialization, and successful initialization gates Django. These controls address image selection and startup failure; they do not establish image provenance or make bucket-policy changes atomic.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Fail-fast initialization improves failure containment for Django startup. A startup gate does not itself restore partial public-policy state or prove that buckets still exist after a previously successful initializer has exited and storage is later reset; that recovery behavior remains unverified.

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• proposed — Validate the selected image's provenance and its server, client, shell, and startup behavior before relying on it with local and CI storage credentials.

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Claude says: Thanks for getting this moving. Michael preferred to build on this PR rather than keep a competing one open, so I added five small commits on top of yours (your commit is untouched). What they do and why:

1. Bucket setup script works with current mc and fails loudly (a16c2c4). The mc in the new images has dropped mc config host add, so compose/local/minio/init.sh errored on its first line, but the trailing exit 0 hid that. The script now uses mc alias set and runs with set -e. This is what caused the 17 errors in this PR's first CI run: the log has 269 lines of 403 Forbidden for url: http://minio:9000/ami-test-ci/..., which is what missing or non-public buckets look like from the tests.
2. CI stops at bucket setup if it fails (1fb4d6a). The django service now waits for minio-init with condition: service_completed_successfully, so a broken setup fails the "Run DB Migrations" step with a clear message instead of 900 seconds later inside the thumbnail tests.
3. Local dev stack waits the same way (5adafb9), and minio-init waits for the server's healthcheck.
4. Image moved off reg.mini.dev (d23f7c0). Minimus's homepage says they will turn off reg.mini.dev on 22 October 2026, so CI would have broken again in about three weeks (CodeRabbit's inline comment is right about this). Both compose files now use Chainguard's MinIO image, pinned by digest, which is publicly pullable today. It runs as a non-root user, so the dev minio service runs as root to keep writing to volumes created by the old image.
5. A comment on each service explaining the choice and how to bump the pin (15f843d).

Verified locally in a fresh copy of the CI stack: minio-init creates both buckets, sets them public and exits 0; migrate succeeds; the two storage-dependent test classes (36 tests) pass. CI on this branch will confirm the full suite.

On your "deployment notes" point: agreed that a repo-owned image would be more durable than any vendor's. A follow-up could add a ten-line Dockerfile that downloads MinIO's official binaries from dl.min.io with pinned release strings, or mirror a known-good image to the org's GHCR. Chainguard is the interim that unblocks CI now.

If you are happy with the additions, the PR title and summary could be updated to something like "Keep CI running now that the MinIO images require a login", and the list of changes extended with the script fix and the wait-for-setup change; happy to leave that to you. #1440 will be closed in favour of this one.

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Claude says: Added commit e442bb3c on this branch: it replaces the Chainguard pin with an image we build and publish ourselves (insectai/minio, from the maintained MinIO forks, built by github.com/RolnickLab/minio-image). Closes #1445 when this merges. Verified locally: CI compose minio + minio-init create the buckets with the published digest, anonymous pull works, and the sponsored Docker Hub org returns no pull rate-limit headers.