Garage cluster

Garage is an S3-compatible, distributed object store. It does not support IAM, versioning or other experimental things but can provide a simple, trustable S3 storage across the nodes to backup Kubernetes resources or other kind of files.

It is an Ansible playbook that makes easier deployment of a multi-node Garage cluster.

Usage

See vars.yaml and inventory. Modify garage.toml.j2 as you wish as variables not exposed from there.

Suggested to use a Python virtual-env (venv) and run the playbook

python3 -m venv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate
ansible-playbook garage.yaml -K --extra-vars "@vars.yaml"

features

• Download Garage binary, specify version or latest.
• Run it in server mode from a Systemd unit as a Systemd service.
• Generate tokens and place them on the file system to make the config file easily modifyable.
• Sync tokens across nodes
• Connect nodes
• Create layout (apply it manualy!!!)