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diff --git a/doc/book/src/intro.md b/doc/book/src/intro.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5d6e2cf0..00000000 --- a/doc/book/src/intro.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,101 +0,0 @@ -<p align="center" style="text-align:center;"> - <a href="https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr"> - <img alt="Garage's Logo" src="img/logo.svg" height="200" /> - </a> -</p> - -<p align="center" style="text-align:center;"> - [ <a href="https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/_releases.html">Download</a> - | <a href="https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage">Git repository</a> - | <a href="https://matrix.to/#/%23garage:deuxfleurs.fr">Matrix channel</a> - | <a href="https://drone.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage">Drone CI</a> - ] -</p> - - -# Data resiliency for everyone - -Garage is an **open-source** distributed **storage service** you can **self-host** to fullfill many needs: - -<p align="center" style="text-align:center; margin-bottom: 5rem;"> -<img alt="Summary of the possible usages with a related icon: host a website, store media and backup target" src="img/usage.svg" /> -</p> - -<p align="center" style="text-align:center; margin-bottom: 5rem;"> -<a href="/design/goals.html#use-cases">⮞ learn more about use cases ⮜</a> -</p> - -Garage implements the **[Amazon S3 API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/Welcome.html)** and thus is already **compatible** with many applications: - -<p align="center" style="text-align:center; margin-bottom: 8rem;"> -<img alt="Garage is already compatible with Nextcloud, Mastodon, Matrix Synapse, Cyberduck, RClone and Peertube" src="img/software.svg" /> -</p> - -<p align="center" style="text-align:center; margin-bottom: 5rem;"> -<a href="/connect/index.html">⮞ learn more about integrations ⮜</a> -</p> - - -Garage provides **data resiliency** by **replicating** data 3x over **distant** servers: - -<p align="center" style="text-align:center; margin-bottom: 5rem;"> -<img alt="An example deployment on a map with servers in 5 zones: UK, France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. Each chunk of data is replicated in 3 of these 5 zones." src="img/map.svg" /> -</p> - -<p align="center" style="text-align:center; margin-bottom: 5rem;"> -<a href="/design/index.html">⮞ learn more about our design ⮜</a> -</p> - -Did you notice that *this website* is hosted and served by Garage? - -## Keeping requirements low - -We worked hard to keep requirements as low as possible as we target the largest possible public. - - * **CPU:** any x86\_64 CPU from the last 10 years, ARMv7 or ARMv8. - * **RAM:** 1GB - * **Disk Space:** at least 16GB - * **Network:** 200ms or less, 50 Mbps or more - * **Heterogeneous hardware:** build a cluster with whatever second-hand machines are available - -*For the network, as we do not use consensus algorithms like Paxos or Raft, Garage is not as latency sensitive.* -*Thanks to Rust and its zero-cost abstractions, we keep CPU and memory low.* - -## Built on the shoulder of giants - - - [Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store ](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1323293.1294281) by DeCandia et al. - - [Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-24550-3_29) by Shapiro et al. - - [Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/eisenbud) by Eisenbud et al. - -## Talks - - - [(fr, 2021-11-13, video) Garage : Mille et une façons de stocker vos données](https://video.tedomum.net/w/moYKcv198dyMrT8hCS5jz9) and [slides (html)](https://rfid.deuxfleurs.fr/presentations/2021-11-13/garage/) - during [RFID#1](https://rfid.deuxfleurs.fr/programme/2021-11-13/) event - - - [(en, 2021-04-28, pdf) Distributed object storage is centralised](https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage/raw/commit/b1f60579a13d3c5eba7f74b1775c84639ea9b51a/doc/talks/2021-04-28_spirals-team/talk.pdf) - - - [(fr, 2020-12-02, pdf) Garage : jouer dans la cour des grands quand on est un hébergeur associatif](https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage/raw/commit/b1f60579a13d3c5eba7f74b1775c84639ea9b51a/doc/talks/2020-12-02_wide-team/talk.pdf) - -## Community - -If you want to discuss with us, you can join our Matrix channel at [#garage:deuxfleurs.fr](https://matrix.to/#/#garage:deuxfleurs.fr). -Our code repository and issue tracker, which is the place where you should report bugs, is managed on [Deuxfleurs' Gitea](https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage). - -## License - -Garage's source code, is released under the [AGPL v3 License](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html). -Please note that if you patch Garage and then use it to provide any service over a network, you must share your code! - -# Sponsors and funding - -The Deuxfleurs association has received a grant from [NGI POINTER](https://pointer.ngi.eu/), to fund 3 people working on Garage full-time for a year: from October 2021 to September 2022. - -<div style="display: flex; justify-content: space-around"> - <a href="https://pointer.ngi.eu/"> - <img style="height:100px" src="img/ngi-logo.png" alt="NGI Pointer logo"> - </a> - <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/what-horizon-2020"> - <img style="height:100px" src="img/eu-flag-logo.png" alt="EU flag logo"> - </a> -</div> - -_This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme within the framework of the NGI-POINTER Project funded under grant agreement N° 871528._ |