The Garage team - An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters

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

Standing on the shoulders of giants

Garage leverages insights from recent research in distributed systems:

Sponsors and funding

Garage has benefitted multiple times from public funding:

• 2021-2022: NGI POINTER provided funding for 3 full-time employees for one year
• 2023-2024: NLnet / NGI0 Entrust provided funding for 1 full-time employee for one year
• 2025: NLnet / NGI0 Commons Fund provided funding for 1.5 full-time employee for one year

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.