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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.
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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.
What’s the difference between this and minio?
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
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
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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).
Nobody should be using SCP, use rsync.
It is simpler when you’re doing stuff on the web and/or need to scale.
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This is such a poor attempt at trolling. Don’t you have better things to do?
Bro, I’m an AWS Cloud Solution Architect and I seriously don’t know what you’re talking about. And, no, when I waste time on Lemmy, then there is literally nothing better to do.
AWS made S3. People built software to integrate S3 as a storage backend. Other people didn’t want to do AWS, and built single-node imitations of the S3 service. Now you use those services and think that is S3, while it is only a crude replica of what S3 really is. At this point the S3 API is redundant and you could just as well store your assets close to your application. You have no real, global S3 delivery service anyway. What’s the point?
Most people misuse AWS S3. Using stuff like minio is even more misguided.
I have been mostly happy with minio but the setup and update process are a bit painful so next time I find myself annoyed with it I might have to give this a shot.
Thoughts on this vs postgres blob storage? I know they aren’t the same thing.
Buckets have a lot of features that postgres don’t. Like mounting via FUSE. And Garage in particular offers some integrations to apps, websited, and so on. I would go with this instead of having a column of byte data in a DB table. The pgsql solution might work in small and simple cases (e.g. storing the user’s avatar in a forum) but even so, if I could or had to choose, I wouldn’t do it.
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.
Has anyone compared it against seaweedfs?
So it compares to existing products, but it’s less mature? Why should anyone care?
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.
