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.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- S3 API – object storage service that is compatible with the S3 API from Amazon Web Services.
Geo-distribution – store copies of your data in multiple geographical locations in order to maximize resilience to adverse events, such as network/power outages or hardware failures. - This allows Garage to run very well even at home, using consumer-grade Internet connectivity (such as FTTH) and power, as long as cluster nodes can be spawned at several physical locations.
- Simple to deploy, and does not depend on any external service to run.
- Flexible topology.
- Supports a variety of replication modes, with configurable replica count, and with various levels of consistency, in order to adapt to a variety of usage scenarios.
- Compression and deduplication.
- Fully-fledged REST API to administer your cluster programatically. Functionality included in the admin API include: setting up and monitoring cluster nodes, managing access credentials, and managing storage buckets and bucket aliases.
- Kubernetes and Nomad integrations.
Website: git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage
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Developer: Deuxfleurs
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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