Has anyone got some experience/advice for choosing between the options? It seems like they are:

My usecase is just to have a local single instance for testing apps against. I prefer to spin stuff up in Docker on the homelab.

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I run MiniO in Docker. Love it. I’ve never used Garage or Seaweed.

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Garage is trivial to get up and running and it’s more lightweight than minio nowadays.

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That’s what annoyed me about minio. Started super crazy simple to set up, but I missed two updates and came back to AWS levels of mandatory configuration. Ffs I chose you because you were simple, not because I needed to replace s3

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I went through this too, except I got pissed off and found a fips compliant image running the last version prior to their disk format changes. Gosh that royally pissed me off.

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Garage definitely seems better suited for selfhosters and small setups, Minio is just so large and complex with specific requirements now.

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I set garage via docker and it was not impossibly hard.

Main problem is that there isn’t an admin panel and you can’t login to the docker container via docker exec, so you have to write some python (or other language of your choice) to send requests to the API port to:

  1. Set the layout of your server
  2. Create an user
  3. Create a bucket
  4. Assign that bucket to your user
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You can use docker exec with garage docker image.

I’m on mobile but I think you just need something like: docker exec containerid ./garage stats

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This is correct, I already installed the minio cli, but when I came back and read this, I tried it out and yes, once garage is running in the container, you can

alias garage="docker exec -ti <container name> /garage"

so you can do the cli things like garage bucket info test-bucket or whatever. The --help for the garage command is pretty great, which is good since they don’t write it up much in the docs.

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Ah maybe I was missing the ./ , it said garage not found on path (on mobile, can’t try)

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Postman is great for sending api queries.

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Thanks. I ended up going with Garage (in Docker), and installed the minio client cli for these tasks.

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https://www.localstack.cloud/ emulates a bunch of the aws services, perfect for local testing.

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Which apps are you testing?

I set up minio s3 for testing myself, but found that most of my docker services doesn’t really support it. So I went back to good old folders

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One I’m writing. I use the host file system (as I have a strong preference for simple) for it’s storage, but I’m interested in adding Litestream for replicating the database onto AWS.

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