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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Of course it does AI now!

But seriously, the easiest guide for minio setup meant using their operator. The garage guide was: spin up this single deploy and it works from there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

S3 storage is simpler than local files? I think you need to elaborate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Nobody should be using SCP, use rsync.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

S3 goes beyond the scope you describe. You disqualify yourself with such statements

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Clearly I mean Garage in here when I write "S3." It is significantly easier and faster to run hugo deploy and let it talk to Garage, then to figure out where on a remote node the nginx k8s pod has its data PV mounted and scp files into it. Yes, I could automate that. Yes, I could pin the blog's pod to a single node. Yes, I could use a stable host path for that and use rsync, and I could skip the whole kubernetes insanity for a static html blog.

But I somewhat enjoy poking the tech and yes, using Garage makes deploys faster and it provides me a stable well-known API endpoint for both data transfers and for serving the content, with very little maintenance required to make it work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't follow. S3 is an AWS service that these tools emulate locally by providing the same API. But I'm happy to accept that there's just some misunderstanding 😃

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In the context of my comments here, any mention of "S3" means "S3-compatible" in the way that's implemented by Garage. I hope that clarifies it for you.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is simpler when you’re doing stuff on the web and/or need to scale.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I disagree. Local files access is always superior. If you disagree, your target solution is likely poor to begin with

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This is such a poor attempt at trolling. Don’t you have better things to do?