How do I self-host Garage?

Garage can be deployed using Docker Compose. The AltStack provides a production-ready configuration that you can deploy on your own server. Simply copy the configuration and run it on any machine with Docker installed.

Is Garage free to self-host?

Yes, Garage is open source under the AGPL-3.0 and free to self-host. Your only costs are the server infrastructure. A basic cloud VPS starts at around $5-10/month.

What programming language is Garage built with?

Garage is built with Rust. It has 4,700 stars on GitHub, indicating strong community adoption and support.

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Deploy Garage

An open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting.

Quick Start

Create a directory

mkdir garage-self-hosted && cd garage-self-hosted

Create config file

Copy the content from the Config tab below into a file named docker-compose.yml

Deploy

docker compose up -d

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Metadata

License

AGPL-3.0

Language

Rust

Last Updated

10/12/2026

Configuration

yaml


# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
# 🚀 BUILT & MAINTAINED BY THE ALTSTACK
# 🌍 https://thealtstack.com
# 💡 Open-source deployment templates for modern self-hosting.
# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

# Garage: Open-source distributed object storage (S3-compatible)
# Perfect replacement for MinIO with true AGPL open-source licensing.

version: '3.8'

services:
  garage:
    image: dxflrs/garage:v1.0.1
    container_name: garage
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "3900:3900" # S3 API
      - "3901:3901" # Web API
      - "3902:3902" # Admin API
      - "3903:3903" # Cluster peering (rpc)
    environment:
      - GARAGE_RPC_BIND_ADDR=[::]:3903
      - GARAGE_RPC_PUBLIC_ADDR=127.0.0.1:3903
      - GARAGE_RPC_SECRET=${GARAGE_RPC_SECRET:-YOUR_SECURE_RPC_SECRET_HERE}
      - GARAGE_S3_API_BIND_ADDR=[::]:3900
      - GARAGE_S3_WEB_BIND_ADDR=[::]:3901
      - GARAGE_ADMIN_API_BIND_ADDR=[::]:3902
      - GARAGE_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/garage/data
      - GARAGE_META_DIR=/var/lib/garage/meta
    volumes:
      - garage_data:/var/lib/garage/data
      - garage_meta:/var/lib/garage/meta

volumes:
  garage_data:
  garage_meta:

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