Just use the damn file system. Why does everyone have to put HTTP between everything?

Garage added an automatic configuration feature in v2.3.0 that makes it easier to set up single nodes:

  garage server --single-node --default-bucket

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/quick-start/

One alternative worth looking at is S2: https://github.com/mojatter/s2

Rustfs, works pretty well for me

or rclone serve

For single-node local S3, I often just use `s3fs` mounting a local directory. MinIO always felt like overkill for simple dev.

I did try seaweedfs ~half a year ago and I had issues with setting up users through terraform module (if I recall correctly, users endpoint were not correctly responding on delete), and lack of S3 expiry rules (you needed to use seaweedfs configuration or API for that). Other than that, I was pretty happy with it.

I enjoyed the smooth transition from minio to RustFS quite a lot.

A notable mention should also be Versity GW, https://github.com/versity/versitygw/

I am using Garage for my local DEV environment.

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

Shout-out to rustfs.

Incus (spiritual successor to LXD, after the fork-off by Canonical) has a simple S3 server built-in.