Garage - An open-source distributed object storage service

Made for redundancy

Our Goals

We made it lightweight and kept the efficiency in mind:

• Self-contained

  We ship a single dependency-free binary that runs on all Linux distributions

• Fast to deploy, safe to operate

  We are sysadmins, we know the value of operator-friendly software

• Deploy everywhere on every machine

  We do not have a dedicated backbone, and neither do you,
  so we made software that run over the Internet across multiple datacenters

• Highly resilient
  to network failures, network latency, disk failures, sysadmin failures

Keeping requirements low

We worked hard to keep requirements as low as possible:

• CPU
  Any x86_64 CPU from the last 10 years, ARMv7 or ARMv8
• RAM
  1 GB
• Disk space
  At least 16 GB
• Network
  200 ms or less, 50 Mbps or more
• Heterogeneous hardware
  Build a cluster with whatever second-hand machines are available

Data resiliency for everyone

We built Garage to suit your existing infrastructure:

Garage implements the Amazon S3 API
and thus is already compatible with many applications.

Standing on the shoulders of giants

Garage leverages insights from recent research in distributed systems:

Sponsors and funding

The Deuxfleurs association has received a grant from NGI POINTER, to fund 3 people working on Garage full-time for a year : from October 2021 to September 2022.

If you want to fund Garage development past its initial grant, either through donation or support contract, please get in touch with us

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2021 research and innovation programme within the framework of the NGI-POINTER Project funded under grant agreement N° 871528.