Garage - An open-source distributed object storage service
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An open-source distributed storage service you can self-host to fullfill many needs.

Note: I am not affiliated with this project in any way. I think it’s a very promising alternative to things like MinIO and deserves more attention.

  • Haui@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I‘m currently trying to bring up a rather complicated setup using garage. Garage on Homeserver behind firewall, vpn relay, peertube and other s3 compatible services on a vps. Garage works rather weill, the vpn is giving me a hard time though. Can recommend.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Minio is definitely not designed to be self hosted on a small server by normal people but more for enterprise use where you have multiple servers and you’re paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for support

    • farcaller@fstab.shEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I remember when minio just started and it was small and easy to run. Nowadays, it’s a full-blown enterprise product, though, full of features you’ll never care about in a homelab eating on your cpu and ram.

      Garage is small and easy to run. I’ve been toying with it for several months and I’m more than happy with its simple API and tiny footprint. I even run my (static html) blog off it because it’s just easier to deploy it to a S3-compatible API.

      • BlueBockser@programming.devEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Minio now describes itself as “S3 & Kubernetes Native Object Storage for AI” - lol

        Guess it’s time to look for alternatives if you’re not doing ML stuff

      • gencha@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        S3 storage is simpler than local files? I think you need to elaborate

        • farcaller@fstab.shEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          S3 storage is simpler than running scp -r to a remote node, because you can copy files to S3 in a massively parallel way and scp is generally sequential. It’s very easy to protect the API too, as it’s just HTTP (and at it, it’s also significantly faster than WebDAV).

  • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Thoughts on this vs postgres blob storage? I know they aren’t the same thing.

    • morbidcactus@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I’m always personally wary of storing blobs in a database if for no other reason it’s going to totally be more expensive to store on a server rather than in some sort of blob storage.

  • gencha@lemm.eeEnglish
    03·
    4 months ago

    So it compares to existing products, but it’s less mature? Why should anyone care?

    • Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Compared to MinIO, it has more storage backend flexibility, cross-region replication is easy, it is resilient to less-than-ideal network conditions between nodes. Did you bother reading the website?

      I’m not sure why your immediate reaction to having more options is negative.