AbixIO UI

Status

Early development. Not production-ready.

This repository is the desktop UI for the AbixIO server. It is a native Rust GUI for browsing S3-compatible storage and for managing AbixIO-specific admin features such as disk health, healing, and shard inspection.

Current reality as of 2026-04-05:

• First commit: 2026-04-04
• No installer, release binaries, or update mechanism
• 145 automated tests, including integration coverage against real AbixIO servers
• Core browse, upload, download, copy, sync, and admin flows work against live S3 endpoints
• This is still a young project with no production history or field time

What works today:

• Bucket and object browsing with recursive navigation and search
• Upload, download, copy, move, rename, and delete workflows
• Multipart upload support for large objects
• Object versioning, tagging, bucket policy, and lifecycle editing
• Recursive diff, copy, and sync with concurrent transfers and rclone-style filters
• Multi-server connection management with OS keychain credential storage
• AbixIO admin screens for disks, healing, shard inspection, and manual heal
• Built-in smoke tests plus automated integration tests against the AbixIO server

What is still missing or rough:

• No CI beyond cargo check, cargo clippy, and cargo test on Windows
• No cross-platform validation or packaging
• Sync bandwidth controls exist in the UI but do nothing yet
• Object content preview is limited to the first 4 KB of text
• No retention, encryption, replication, or quota management controls
• No CLI or scripting surface; this is GUI-only
• Integration tests still expose real server-side bugs that are not fixed yet

If you need a production S3 client today, use mc or rclone.

What AbixIO UI Is

AbixIO UI is a native desktop S3 client and an admin console for the AbixIO server.

Both are first-class use cases. This repo is meant for:

• Browsing buckets and objects on any S3-compatible endpoint
• Running upload, download, copy, move, and sync workflows
• Managing bucket-level S3 features such as versioning, policy, lifecycle, and tagging
• Inspecting AbixIO server health, healing state, and shard layout
• Running AbixIO-specific repair and operational workflows

Built with iced and aws-sdk-s3.

Features

• Desktop S3 browser. Buckets, prefix navigation, breadcrumbs, filters, recursive find, upload, download, copy, move, rename, and delete.
• AbixIO server admin. Auto-detects AbixIO servers and exposes disk health, healing monitor, shard inspection, and manual heal actions.
• Object versioning. Enable or suspend bucket versioning and manage object versions from the detail panel.
• Tagging, policy, and lifecycle editors. Inline editing for object tags, bucket policy JSON, and lifecycle XML.
• Multi-server connections. Save, edit, test, and switch between endpoints with OS keychain credential storage.
• AWS Signature V4 authentication. Works with AbixIO and other S3-compatible endpoints.
• Built-in verification tools. Includes in-app smoke tests and automated integration coverage.

Usage

abixio-ui                                            # connection manager
abixio-ui --endpoint http://localhost:10000         # connect to local AbixIO server
abixio-ui --endpoint https://s3.amazonaws.com \
  --access-key AKIA... --secret-key wJalr...        # connect to another S3 endpoint

Build

cargo build --release

Not Yet Implemented

• Presigned upload URLs
• Working bandwidth enforcement and watch mode for sync
• Full inline content viewer beyond the current 4 KB text preview

Documentation

Doc	Subject
s3.md	S3 SDK config, operations, UI features, response handling
features.md	MinIO client parity tracking
architecture.md	App architecture, layout, async model
sync.md	Sync design, performance model, phased rollout
credentials.md	OS keychain credential storage
testing.md	In-app smoke tests and automated integration test harness

Related Project

• abixio: the AbixIO server that this UI is built to manage

License

GNU General Public License v3.0