Announcing RustFS 1.0.0 GA: Production-Ready, Open Source, S3-Compatible Object Storage

TL;DR: RustFS 1.0.0 GA is now generally available. Written in Rust and released under the Apache 2.0 license, RustFS has grown from its first commit in February 2024 into a distributed object storage platform with 32,000+ GitHub stars and 2.7 million+ instances deployed worldwide. The core object storage engine is stable and ready for production.

Today, we are excited to announce that RustFS 1.0.0 GA is officially available. From Alpha to Beta, RC, and now GA, the 1.0.0 release marks the moment RustFS is ready for production workloads.

RustFS is a next-generation distributed object storage system written in Rust. From the first line of code in February 2024 to today, the team has spent two years and seven months building and refining it. The 1.0.0 release means our core capability — object storage — is stable, and users can run it in production with confidence.

The Journey of RustFS

RustFS has come a long way from an empty editor window to a generally available platform:

What RustFS Has Achieved

Since open sourcing in July 2025, RustFS has grown rapidly and reached a series of milestones:

• 32,000+ GitHub stars
• 10 million+ image pulls on Docker Hub
• 2.7 million+ instances deployed worldwide
• 160+ contributors across the globe
• Featured on GitHub Trending 9 times
• Featured on GitHub Rust Trending 50+ times
• Joined the NVIDIA Inception Program

RustFS 1.0.0 Core Features at a Glance

Data Management

• Full bucket lifecycle management
• Full object lifecycle management
• Multipart upload for large files
• Erasure coding (EC)
• Data tiering
• Lifecycle management
• S3 Tables — Apache Iceberg REST Catalog built into the storage kernel

Multi-Protocol Support

• Amazon S3-compatible API
• WebDAV
• Swift API
• FTP/FTPS
• MCP

Security & Compliance

• IAM
• OIDC
• KMS integration
• Server-side encryption (SSE)
• STS token service
• Security auditing
• mTLS

High Availability & Scalability

• Distributed deployment
• Pool expansion
• Data rebalancing
• Self-healing nodes
• Site replication / bucket replication

Operations & Observability

• Event notifications
• OpenTelemetry (OTEL) support
• Capacity statistics
• Cluster health inspection
• Multi-tenancy support
• Storage pool decommissioning
• Cloud-native support

Quick Start

RustFS supports multiple operating systems (Linux, Windows, macOS) and multiple installation methods, including source builds, binaries, Docker, and Kubernetes.

The fastest way to try RustFS 1.0.0 GA is with the official docker-compose.yml, which boots a RustFS instance inside a Docker container:

# Clone the repository
git clone git@github.com:rustfs/rustfs.git

# Start the container instance
cd rustfs
docker compose -f docker-compose-simple.yml up -d

Before running the command, change RUSTFS_ACCESS_KEY and RUSTFS_SECRET_KEY to values other than the default rustfsadmin.

Then open http://ip:9001 in your browser to access the RustFS console:

For more installation options, see the download page.

What's Next?

The 1.0.0 GA release is a major milestone for RustFS — and a new beginning. As more and more users run RustFS in production, our next steps are to:

• Actively respond to user and customer feedback and keep polishing RustFS to make it more robust
• Add support for S3 Vectors and build RustFS 2.0 around AI, bringing RustFS into AI data centers

If you have any questions, reach us through our website at https://rustfs.com or open an issue on the RustFS GitHub repository: https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs.