Anyone used this successfully in their setup?
Garage is an S3-compatible distributed object storage service designed for self-hosting at a small-to-medium scale.
Garage is designed for storage clusters composed of nodes running at different physical locations, in order to easily provide a storage service that replicates data at these different locations and stays available even when some servers are unreachable. Garage also focuses on being lightweight, easy to operate, and highly resilient to machine failures.
Garage is built by Deuxfleurs, an experimental small-scale self hosted service provider, which has been using it in production since its first release in 2020.
I really wish projects like this would prioritize having an English-language presence on fedi.
Aimed at self hosting, but S3-compatible and designed to run at different physical locations?
Surely the venn diagram for that has not such a big overlap?
S3 compatible means tooling compatible. Plenty of small to medium operations who aren’t tripping over themselves to throw money at the cloud. A couple guys with hardware admin and docker admin experience is ridiculously cheaper.
I’ve briefly tried both Garage and MinIO and they both work as advertised. Though I did it for experimentation on self-hosted services, so I don’t have any experience with large-scale or real-world use.
I use garage locally for low stakes stuff and so far it works as advertised.
I get ~300mb/s on large files from fast SSD, small files are quick too.
System seems very stable and running in docker only uses ~18mb idle.