We released our first major stable version, Garage v1.0, almost a year ago. So what's next for Garage? A graphical user interface for cluster administration! Share your experience and feedback so that we can provide the best possible user experience.
A first stable version is an important step for a project, so quite some time have been dedicated into making sure Garage reached a polished enough state. Now that this version has been released, it is time to decide what would be the next steps.
Facilitate cluster administration
Garage is built to facilitate reliable distributed data storage for self-hosting and small-scale hosting situations. Making it fully usable for hobbyists and small organizations is one of our key goals. Therefore improving the cluster administration experience is an important topic to cover.
Creating a web admin interface is pretty logical step in that direction, and also addresses one of the most requested feature from last year's community survey. We're glad the recently validated funding from NLnet will allow us to dedicate full-time resources to this project!
This way you will be able to achieve most common operations in your web browser:
- Visualize cluster status and health
- Add, configure or remove nodes
- Manage buckets and access keys
This development will be built upon a refactor of the administration API — scheduled for release later this year. It will also improve the way for developers to build their own scripts or custom management tools by adding support for multiple, expirable and revocable admin API tokens.
New community survey
As we embark on the design phase for the web admin UI, we are launching a new survey to get a better understanding of the various use-cases around Garage. If you use Garage (or not yet?), we would love to hear from you! Your responses will help shape the development and ensure the interface meets real-world needs.
We look forward to read your valuable feedback!