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While Ansible is not officially supported to deploy Garage, several community members
have published Ansible roles.  We list them and compare them below.

## Comparison of Ansible roles

| Feature                            | [ansible-role-garage](#zorun-ansible-role-garage) | [garage-docker-ansible-deploy](#moan0s-garage-docker-ansible-deploy) |
|------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Runtime**                        | Systemd                                     | Docker                                                        |
| **Target OS**                      | Any Linux                                   | Any Linux                                                     |
| **Architecture**                   | amd64, arm64, i686                          | amd64, arm64                                                  |
| **Additional software**            | None                                        | Traefik                                                       |
| **Automatic node connection**      | ❌                                          | ✅                                                            |
| **Layout management**              | ❌                                          | ✅                                                            |
| **Manage buckets & keys**          | ❌                                          | ✅ (basic)                                                    |
| **Allow custom Garage config**     | ✅                                          | ❌                                                            |
| **Facilitate Garage upgrades**     | ✅                                          | ❌                                                            |
| **Multiple instances on one host** | ✅                                          | ✅                                                            |


## zorun/ansible-role-garage

[Source code](https://github.com/zorun/ansible-role-garage), [Ansible galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/zorun/garage)

This role is voluntarily simple: it relies on the official Garage static
binaries and only requires Systemd.  As such, it should work on any
Linux-based OS.

To make things more flexible, the user has to provide a Garage
configuration template.  This allows to customize Garage configuration in
any way.

Some more features might be added, such as a way to automatically connect
nodes to each other or to define a layout.

## moan0s/garage-docker-ansible-deploy

[Source code](https://github.com/moan0s/garage-docker-ansible-deploy), [Blog post](https://hyteck.de/post/garage/)

This role is based on the Docker image for Garage, and comes with
"batteries included": it will additionally install Docker and Traefik. In
addition, it is "opinionated" in the sense that it expects a particular
deployment structure (one instance per disk, one gateway per host,
structured DNS names, etc).

As a result, this role makes it easier to start with Garage on Ansible,
but is less flexible.