diff --git a/pkgs/servers/minio/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/minio/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ee37107858b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/minio/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, go }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "minio-${shortVersion}";
+
+  shortVersion = "20160821";
+  longVersion = "2016-08-21T02:44:47Z";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/minio/minio/archive/RELEASE.${lib.replaceStrings [":"] ["-"] longVersion}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "159196bnb4b7f00jh9gll9kqqxq1ifxv1kg5bd6yjpqf5qca4pkn";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ go ];
+
+  unpackPhase = ''
+    d=$TMPDIR/src/github.com/minio/minio
+    mkdir -p $d
+    tar xf $src -C $d --strip-component 1
+    export GOPATH=$TMPDIR
+    cd $d
+  '';
+
+  buildPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    go build -o $out/bin/minio \
+      --ldflags "-X github.com/minio/minio/cmd.Version=${longVersion}"
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = "true";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://www.minio.io/;
+    description = "An S3-compatible object storage server";
+    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.eelco ];
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
+    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0f32f1a44f2..08abe16df0d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10417,6 +10417,8 @@ in
 
   mfi = callPackage ../servers/mfi { };
 
+  minio = callPackage ../servers/minio { };
+
   # Backwards compatibility.
   mod_dnssd = pkgs.apacheHttpdPackages.mod_dnssd;
   mod_fastcgi = pkgs.apacheHttpdPackages.mod_fastcgi;