garage

Chainguard Container for garage

Garage is an S3-compatible distributed object storage service.

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/garage:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatibility Notes

Chainguard's garage image is comparable to the upstream Garage container image published by Deuxfleurs.

Getting Started

Upstream publishes separate Helm chart branches for Garage v1.x and v2.x with different configuration options:

• v2.x (latest): Use branch main-v2 - uses replicationFactor and consistencyMode
• v1.x: Use branch main-v1 - uses replicationMode

Clone the Helm chart for your desired version:

# For Garage v2.x (latest)
git clone -b main-v2 https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage.git

Create a values.yaml file:

image:
  repository: cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/garage
  tag: latest

Install the chart:

helm install garage ./garage/script/helm/garage \
  --namespace garage \
  --create-namespace \
  -f values.yaml

The Helm chart generates the Garage configuration from values. For all configuration options, refer to the Garage Helm chart documentation.

Usage

After deploying Garage, configure the cluster layout and create buckets using the garage CLI:

# Check cluster status and get node IDs
kubectl exec -n garage garage-0 -- garage status

# Assign nodes to the layout (use node IDs from status output)
kubectl exec -n garage garage-0 -- garage layout assign <node-id> -z dc1 -c 1G
kubectl exec -n garage garage-0 -- garage layout apply --version 1

# Create a bucket and access key
kubectl exec -n garage garage-0 -- garage bucket create my-bucket
kubectl exec -n garage garage-0 -- garage key create my-key
kubectl exec -n garage garage-0 -- garage bucket allow my-bucket --read --write --key my-key
kubectl exec -n garage garage-0 -- garage key info my-key --show-secret

Use the credentials from key info with any S3-compatible client. Port-forward to access the S3 API:

kubectl port-forward -n garage svc/garage 3900:3900 &
aws --endpoint-url http://localhost:3900 s3 cp myfile.txt s3://my-bucket/
aws --endpoint-url http://localhost:3900 s3 ls s3://my-bucket/

Documentation and Resources

• Garage Documentation
• Garage Quick Start
• S3 Compatibility Reference

What are Chainguard Containers?

Chainguard's free tier of Starter container images are built with Wolfi, our minimal Linux undistro.

All other Chainguard Containers are built with Chainguard OS, Chainguard's minimal Linux operating system designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Containers include:

• Minimal design, without unnecessary software bloat
• Daily builds to ensure container images are up-to-date with available security patches
• High quality build-time SBOMs attesting to the provenance of all artifacts within the image
• Verifiable signatures provided by Sigstore
• Reproducible builds with Cosign and apko (read more about reproducibility)

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Need additional packages?

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To use Custom Assembly in the Chainguard Console: navigate to the image you'd like to customize in your Organization's list of images, and click on the Customize image button at the top of the page.

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