One project, one maintainer, no community-edition trap.
Why Stowage exists, who builds it, and how to get in touch.
About Stowage
Stowage is a self-hosted web dashboard for any S3-compatible object storage backend. It exists because in February 2025, MinIO removed the administrative features from its open-source console and put them behind a commercial product, leaving teams running self-hosted object storage without a credible vendor-neutral UI option.
Rather than fork MinIO's console, Stowage takes a different cut: a proxy that holds the credentials, speaks plain S3 to any backend, and layers shared features — sharing, audit, quotas, OIDC — uniformly on top. One dashboard, every backend, no community-edition trap.
About the maintainer
I'm Damian van der Merwe, an infrastructure and DevOps engineer. I work on Kubernetes, distributed storage, Internal applications development , and Auth integrations day-to-day, and I built Stowage to scratch a problem I kept hitting in our kubernetes cluster: every S3-compatible backend has its own UI, none of them are great, and most of them are tied to one vendor.
If you're a recruiter or hiring manager and Stowage looks like the kind of work you'd want on your team — or if you're an operator with a question about deploying it — my portfolio and contact details are at damianvandermerwe.com.
Project status & contact
- Status v1.0 shipped — see the changelog .
- Sponsor GitHub Sponsors — supports continued development.
- Bugs GitHub issues
- Everything else damianvandermerwe.com