u/biberklatsche

How do you handle multi-platform releases, auto-updates, and release archives without being locked into GitHub?

I’m building a Tauri app that targets Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Right now I’m thinking about the release infrastructure:

• build releases for all platforms
• support Tauri auto-updates
• keep older releases archived
• avoid being fully dependent on GitHub Releases
• make it reasonably easy to move to another provider later
• keep the setup as low-maintenance as possible

My current concern is vendor lock-in. GitHub Releases are convenient, but I don’t want the whole update/distribution setup to depend on one platform forever.

Has anyone here solved this in a clean way?

For example:

• GitHub Releases + mirrored artifacts somewhere else?
• S3 / Cloudflare R2 as the main artifact storage?
• a small custom release server?
• something else entirely?

I’d love to hear what worked well in practice, especially for Tauri apps with auto-update across Windows, macOS, and Linux.