Alarik is a high-performance, self-hosted object storage system with an S3-compatible API.
The software is written in Swift and provides a web console for managing objects, buckets, users, access keys and storage nodes. It can run on a single server or scale horizontally across a cluster with erasure-coded storage.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports core S3 object operations including upload, download, copy, deletion and multi-object deletion.
- Offers multipart uploads with controls for creating, completing, aborting and listing uploads.
- Provides bucket versioning, delete markers and object version management.
- Supports conditional requests, range reads and presigned URLs using AWS Signature Version 4 authentication.
- Offers object tagging, bucket policies, lifecycle rules and public access controls.
- Includes a web console with an object browser, drag-and-drop uploads, recursive search and storage statistics.
- Lets users edit object metadata, manage versions and create time-limited public links.
- Supports local user accounts, multiple OpenID Connect identity providers and expiring S3 access keys.
- Provides persistent, HMAC-signed webhook notifications with filtering and automatic retries.
- Replicates objects to remote S3-compatible storage systems using configurable synchronous or asynchronous rules.
- Supports horizontal scaling with Reed-Solomon erasure coding, quorum writes and deterministic object placement.
- Offers read repair, bit-rot detection, background scrubbing and automatic shard reconstruction.
- Stores configuration and cluster metadata internally without requiring an external database.
- Provides an administrative dashboard for monitoring resources, traffic, storage distribution and cluster health.
Website: github.com/achtungsoftware/alarik
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Developer: Achtung Software
License: Apache License 2.0
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