We maintain a `script/` folder that contains some useful script to ease testing on Garage.
A fully integrated script, `test-smoke.sh`, runs some basic tests on various tools such as minio client, awscli and rclone.
To run it, enter a `nix-shell` (or install all required tools) and simply run:
```bash
nix-build # or cargo build
./script/test-smoke.sh
```
If something fails, you can find useful logs in `/tmp/garage.log`.
You can inspect the generated configuration and local data created by inspecting your `/tmp` directory:
the script creates files and folder prefixed with the name "garage".
## Bootstrapping a test cluster
Under the hood `test-smoke.sh` uses multiple helpers scripts you can also run in case you want to manually test Garage.
In this section, we introduce 3 scripts to quickly bootstrap a full test cluster with 3 instances.
### 1. Start each daemon
```bash
./script/dev-cluster.sh
```
This script spawns 3 Garage instances with 3 configuration files.
You can inspect the detailed configuration, including ports, by inspecting `/tmp/config.1` (change 1 by the instance number you want).
This script also spawns a simple HTTPS reverse proxy through `socat` for the S3 endpoint that listens on port `4443`.
Some libraries might require a TLS endpoint to work, refer to our issue [#64](https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage/issues/64) for more detailed information on this subject.
This script covers the [Launching the garage server](/documentation/quick-start/overview/#launching-the-garage-server) section of our Quick start page.