Garage is an open source S3-compatible object storage cluster designed for self hosting
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.
You're viewing a single thread.
What's the difference between this and minio?
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.
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
Of course it does AI now!
But seriously, the easiest guide for minio setup meant using their operator. The garage guide was: spin up this single deploy and it works from there.
I hate that every product has added “for AI” to their name and homepage.
I guess the investor are asking for it, but as a customer I can’t tell what products actually work for my use case anymore.
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
Minio didnt need a container rig crutch to lean on when I last looked at it.
