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+# Quick Start
+
+Let's start your Garage journey!
+In this chapter, we explain how to deploy Garage as a single-node server
+and how to interact with it.
+
+Our goal is to introduce you to Garage's workflows.
+Following this guide is recommended before moving on to
+[configuring a multi-node cluster](../cookbook/real_world.md).
+
+Note that this kind of deployment should not be used in production,
+as it provides no redundancy for your data!
+
+## Get a binary
+
+Download the latest Garage binary from the release pages on our repository:
+
+<https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/_releases.html>
+
+Place this binary somewhere in your `$PATH` so that you can invoke the `garage`
+command directly (for instance you can copy the binary in `/usr/local/bin`
+or in `~/.local/bin`).
+
+If a binary of the last version is not available for your architecture,
+or if you want a build customized for your system,
+you can [build Garage from source](../cookbook/from_source.md).
+
+
+## Writing a first configuration file
+
+This first configuration file should allow you to get started easily with the simplest
+possible Garage deployment.
+**Save it as `/etc/garage.toml`.**
+You can also store it somewhere else, but you will have to specify `-c path/to/garage.toml`
+at each invocation of the `garage` binary (for example: `garage -c ./garage.toml server`, `garage -c ./garage.toml status`).
+
+```toml
+metadata_dir = "/tmp/meta"
+data_dir = "/tmp/data"
+
+replication_mode = "none"
+
+rpc_bind_addr = "[::]:3901"
+rpc_public_addr = "127.0.0.1:3901"
+rpc_secret = "1799bccfd7411eddcf9ebd316bc1f5287ad12a68094e1c6ac6abde7e6feae1ec"
+
+bootstrap_peers = []
+
+[s3_api]
+s3_region = "garage"
+api_bind_addr = "[::]:3900"
+root_domain = ".s3.garage"
+
+[s3_web]
+bind_addr = "[::]:3902"
+root_domain = ".web.garage"
+index = "index.html"
+```
+
+The `rpc_secret` value provided above is just an example. It will work, but in
+order to secure your cluster you will need to use another one. You can generate
+such a value with `openssl rand -hex 32`.
+
+
+As you can see in the `metadata_dir` and `data_dir` parameters, we are saving Garage's data
+in `/tmp` which gets erased when your system reboots. This means that data stored on this
+Garage server will not be persistent. Change these to locations on your local disk if you want
+your data to be persisted properly.
+
+
+# Launching the Garage server
+
+Use the following command to launch the Garage server with our configuration file:
+
+```
+RUST_LOG=garage=info garage server
+```
+
+You can tune Garage's verbosity as follows (from less verbose to more verbose):
+
+```
+RUST_LOG=garage=info garage server
+RUST_LOG=garage=debug garage server
+RUST_LOG=garage=trace garage server
+```
+
+Log level `info` is recommended for most use cases.
+Log level `debug` can help you check why your S3 API calls are not working.
+
+
+## Checking that Garage runs correctly
+
+The `garage` utility is also used as a CLI tool to configure your Garage deployment.
+It uses values from the TOML configuration file to find the Garage daemon running on the
+local node, therefore if your configuration file is not at `/etc/garage.toml` you will
+again have to specify `-c path/to/garage.toml`.
+
+If the `garage` CLI is able to correctly detect the parameters of your local Garage node,
+the following command should be enough to show the status of your cluster:
+
+```
+garage status
+```
+
+This should show something like this:
+
+```
+==== HEALTHY NODES ====
+ID                 Hostname  Address         Tag                   Zone  Capacity
+563e1ac825ee3323…  linuxbox  127.0.0.1:3901  NO ROLE ASSIGNED
+```
+
+## Creating a cluster layout
+
+Creating a cluster layout for a Garage deployment means informing Garage
+of the disk space available on each node of the cluster
+as well as the zone (e.g. datacenter) each machine is located in.
+
+For our test deployment, we are using only one node. The way in which we configure
+it does not matter, you can simply write:
+
+```bash
+garage layout assign -z dc1 -c 1 <node_id>
+```
+
+where `<node_id>` corresponds to the identifier of the node shown by `garage status` (first column).
+You can enter simply a prefix of that identifier.
+For instance here you could write just `garage layout assign -z dc1 -c 1 563e`.
+
+The layout then has to be applied to the cluster, using:
+
+```bash
+garage layout apply
+```
+
+
+## Creating buckets and keys
+
+In this section, we will suppose that we want to create a bucket named `nextcloud-bucket`
+that will be accessed through a key named `nextcloud-app-key`.
+
+Don't forget that `help` command and `--help` subcommands can help you anywhere,
+the CLI tool is self-documented! Two examples:
+
+```
+garage help
+garage bucket allow --help
+```
+
+#### Create a bucket
+
+Let's take an example where we want to deploy NextCloud using Garage as the
+main data storage.
+
+First, create a bucket with the following command:
+
+```
+garage bucket create nextcloud-bucket
+```
+
+Check that everything went well:
+
+```
+garage bucket list
+garage bucket info nextcloud-bucket
+```
+
+#### Create an API key
+
+The `nextcloud-bucket` bucket now exists on the Garage server,
+however it cannot be accessed until we add an API key with the proper access rights.
+
+Note that API keys are independent of buckets:
+one key can access multiple buckets, multiple keys can access one bucket.
+
+Create an API key using the following command:
+
+```
+garage key new --name nextcloud-app-key
+```
+
+The output should look as follows:
+
+```
+Key name: nextcloud-app-key
+Key ID: GK3515373e4c851ebaad366558
+Secret key: 7d37d093435a41f2aab8f13c19ba067d9776c90215f56614adad6ece597dbb34
+Authorized buckets:
+```
+
+Check that everything works as intended:
+
+```
+garage key list
+garage key info nextcloud-app-key
+```
+
+#### Allow a key to access a bucket
+
+Now that we have a bucket and a key, we need to give permissions to the key on the bucket:
+
+```
+garage bucket allow \
+  --read \
+  --write \
+  nextcloud-bucket \
+  --key nextcloud-app-key
+```
+
+You can check at any time the allowed keys on your bucket with:
+
+```
+garage bucket info nextcloud-bucket
+```
+
+
+## Uploading and downlading from Garage
+
+We recommend the use of MinIO Client to interact with Garage files (`mc`).
+Instructions to install it and use it are provided on the
+[MinIO website](https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-client-quickstart-guide.html).
+Before reading the following, you need a working `mc` command on your path.
+
+Note that on certain Linux distributions such as Arch Linux, the Minio client binary
+is called `mcli` instead of `mc` (to avoid name clashes with the Midnight Commander).
+
+#### Configure `mc`
+
+You need your access key and secret key created above.
+We will assume you are invoking `mc` on the same machine as the Garage server,
+your S3 API endpoint is therefore `http://127.0.0.1:3900`.
+For this whole configuration, you must set an alias name: we chose `my-garage`, that you will used for all commands.
+
+Adapt the following command accordingly and run it:
+
+```bash
+mc alias set \
+  my-garage \
+  http://127.0.0.1:3900 \
+  <access key> \
+  <secret key> \
+  --api S3v4
+```
+
+You must also add an environment variable to your configuration to
+inform MinIO of our region (`garage` by default, corresponding to the `s3_region` parameter
+in the configuration file).
+The best way is to add the following snippet to your `$HOME/.bash_profile`
+or `$HOME/.bashrc` file:
+
+```bash
+export MC_REGION=garage
+```
+
+#### Use `mc`
+
+You can not list buckets from `mc` currently.
+
+But the following commands and many more should work:
+
+```bash
+mc cp image.png my-garage/nextcloud-bucket
+mc cp my-garage/nextcloud-bucket/image.png .
+mc ls my-garage/nextcloud-bucket
+mc mirror localdir/ my-garage/another-bucket
+```
+
+
+#### Other tools for interacting with Garage
+
+The following tools can also be used to send and recieve files from/to Garage:
+
+- the [AWS CLI](https://aws.amazon.com/cli/)
+- [`rclone`](https://rclone.org/)
+- [Cyberduck](https://cyberduck.io/)
+- [`s3cmd`](https://s3tools.org/s3cmd)
+
+Refer to the ["Integrations" section](../connect/index.md) to learn how to
+configure application and command line utilities to integrate with Garage.