Garage is a distributed object storage service intended for small and medium-sized self-hosted installations. It is designed to run across several servers, including machines situated in different physical locations and connected through ordinary internet connections.
The project takes a different approach from storage platforms intended primarily for large data centres. It places particular emphasis on simplicity, resilience and efficient operation on modest hardware. Garage is suitable for organisations and individuals who want geographically distributed storage without maintaining a complicated supporting infrastructure.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Implements an S3-compatible object storage API for applications, backup utilities and other S3 clients.
- Geo-distributed replication maintains copies of data across different physical locations to improve resilience against outages.
- Configurable replication factors and consistency modes allow administrators to balance redundancy, availability and performance.
- Cluster layout management considers the capacity and geographical location of each storage node.
- Automatic data rebalancing redistributes stored objects when nodes are added, removed or reconfigured.
- Block-level deduplication reduces storage consumption when identical data blocks occur in multiple objects.
- Optional Zstandard compression reduces the disk space required by compressible content.
- Avoids using Raft or a central consensus leader for object requests, reducing coordination overhead between distant nodes.
- Built-in static website hosting allows content to be served directly from compatible storage buckets.
- REST administration API supports cluster management, node monitoring, storage buckets, credentials and aliases.
- Prometheus-compatible metrics and OpenTelemetry tracing provide facilities for monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Kubernetes and Nomad integrations assist with deployment and cluster discovery.
Website: git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage
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Developer: Deuxfleurs
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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