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+title="Help shape the upcoming administration interface for Garage"
+date=2025-03-25
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+*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.*
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+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.
+
+[Answer the survey here](https://pad.deuxfleurs.fr/form/#/2/form/view/iO+I1rFlKAjh4HybfZ5dyB9lg-aLThFmBzKWXk4lfrM/)
+
+We look forward to read your valuable feedback!