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
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
Garage leverages insights from recent research in distributed systems:
Garage has benefitted multiple times from public funding:
If you want to participate in funding Garage development, 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.
This project has received funding from the NGI Zero Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101069594.
This project has received funding from the NGI Zero Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429.