diff --git a/.github/workflows/pipeline_swfs_test.yaml b/.github/workflows/pipeline_swfs_test.yaml
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+++ b/.github/workflows/pipeline_swfs_test.yaml
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+name: Deploy and test Kubeflow Pipelines manifests with seaweedfs and m2m auth in KinD
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+    - tests/gh-actions/install_KinD_create_KinD_cluster_install_kustomize.sh
+    - .github/workflows/pipeline_swfs_test.yaml
+    - apps/pipeline/upstream/**
+    - tests/gh-actions/install_istio.sh
+    - tests/gh-actions/install_cert_manager.sh
+    - tests/gh-actions/install_oauth2-proxy.sh
+    - common/cert-manager/**
+    - common/oauth2-proxy/**
+    - common/istio*/**
+    - contrib/seaweedfs/**
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+    - name: Install KinD, Create KinD cluster and Install kustomize
+      run: ./tests/gh-actions/install_KinD_create_KinD_cluster_install_kustomize.sh
+
+    - name: Install kubectl
+      run: ./tests/gh-actions/install_kubectl.sh
+
+    - name: Install Istio
+      run: ./tests/gh-actions/install_istio.sh
+
+    - name: Install oauth2-proxy
+      run: ./tests/gh-actions/install_oauth2-proxy.sh
+
+    - name: Install cert-manager
+      run: ./tests/gh-actions/install_cert_manager.sh
+
+    - name: Create kubeflow namespace
+      run: kustomize build common/kubeflow-namespace/base | kubectl apply -f -
+
+    - name: Install KF Pipelines
+      run: ./tests/gh-actions/install_pipelines.sh
+
+    - name: Install KF Multi Tenancy
+      run: ./tests/gh-actions/install_multi_tenancy.sh
+
+    - name: Install kubeflow-istio-resources
+      run: kustomize build common/istio-1-22/kubeflow-istio-resources/base | kubectl apply -f -
+
+    - name: Create KF Profile
+      run: kustomize build common/user-namespace/base | kubectl apply -f -
+
+    - name: Install seaweedfs
+      run: |
+        kustomize build contrib/seaweedfs/istio | kubectl apply -f -
+        kubectl -n kubeflow wait --for=condition=available --timeout=600s deploy/seaweedfs
+        kubectl -n kubeflow exec deploy/seaweedfs -c seaweedfs -- sh -c "echo \"s3.configure -user minio -access_key minio -secret_key minio123 -actions Read,Write,List -apply\" | /usr/bin/weed shell"
+
+    - name: port forward
+      run: |
+        ingress_gateway_service=$(kubectl get svc --namespace istio-system --selector="app=istio-ingressgateway" --output jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}')
+        nohup kubectl port-forward --namespace istio-system svc/${ingress_gateway_service} 8080:80 &
+        while ! curl localhost:8080; do echo waiting for port-forwarding; sleep 1; done; echo port-forwarding ready
+
+    - name: List and deploy test pipeline with authorized ServiceAccount Token
+      run: |
+        pip3 install kfp==2.4.0
+        KF_PROFILE=kubeflow-user-example-com
+        TOKEN="$(kubectl -n $KF_PROFILE create token default-editor)"
+
+        python -c '
+        from time import sleep
+        import kfp
+        import sys
+
+        token = sys.argv[1]
+        namespace = sys.argv[2]
+        client = kfp.Client(host="http://localhost:8080/pipeline", existing_token=token)
+
+        pipeline = client.list_pipelines().pipelines[0]
+        pipeline_name = pipeline.display_name
+        pipeline_id = pipeline.pipeline_id
+        pipeline_version_id = client.list_pipeline_versions(pipeline_id).pipeline_versions[0].pipeline_version_id
+        experiment_id = client.create_experiment("seaweedfs-test", namespace=namespace).experiment_id
+
+        print(f"Starting pipeline {pipeline_name}.")
+        run_id = client.run_pipeline(experiment_id=experiment_id, job_name="m2m-test", pipeline_id=pipeline_id, version_id=pipeline_version_id).run_id
+
+        while True:
+          status = client.get_run(run_id=run_id).state
+          if status in ["PENDING", "RUNNING"]:
+            print(f"Waiting for run_id: {run_id}, status: {status}.")
+            sleep(10)
+          else:
+            print(f"Run with id {run_id} finished with status: {status}.")
+            if status != "SUCCEEDED":
+              print("Pipeline failed")
+              raise SystemExit(1)
+            break
+        ' "${TOKEN}" "${KF_PROFILE}"
diff --git a/contrib/seaweedfs/OWNERS b/contrib/seaweedfs/OWNERS
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+++ b/contrib/seaweedfs/OWNERS
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+approvers:
+#  - pschoen-itsc
+  - juliusvonkohout
+reviewers:
+#  - pschoen-itsc
+  - juliusvonkohout
diff --git a/contrib/seaweedfs/README.md b/contrib/seaweedfs/README.md
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+++ b/contrib/seaweedfs/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# SeaweedFS
+
+- [Official documentation](https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/wiki)
+- [Official repository](https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs)
+
+SeaweedFS is a simple and highly scalable distributed file system. It has an S3 interface which makes it usable as an object store for kubeflow.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+- Kubernetes (any recent Version should work)
+- You should have `kubectl` available and configured to talk to the desired cluster.
+- `kustomize`
+- If you installed kubeflow with minio, use the `istio` dir instead of `base` for the kustomize commands.
+
+## Compile manifests
+
+```bash
+kubectl kustomize ./base/
+```
+
+## Install SeaweedFS
+
+**WARNING**
+This replaces the service `minio-service` and will redirect the traffic to seaweedfs.
+
+```bash
+# Optional, but recommended to backup existing minio-service
+kubectl get -n kubeflow svc minio-service -o=jsonpath='{.metadata.annotations.kubectl\.kubernetes\.io/last-applied-configuration}' > svc-minio-service-backup.json
+
+kubectl kustomize ./base/ | kubectl apply -f -
+```
+
+## Verify deployment
+
+Run
+```bash
+./test.sh
+```
+With the ready check on the container it already verifies that the S3 starts correctly.
+You can then use it with the endpoint at http://localhost:8333.
+To create access keys open a shell on the pod and use `weed shell` to configure your instance.
+Create a user with the command `s3.configure -user <username> -access_key <access-key> -secret-key <secret-key> -actions Read:<my-bucket>/<my-prefix>,Write::<my-bucket>/<my-prefix> -apply`
+Documentation for this can also be found [here](https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/wiki/Amazon-S3-API).
+
+## Uninstall SeaweedFS
+
+```bash
+kubectl kustomize ./base/ | kubectl delete -f -
+# Restore minio-service from backup
+kubectl apply -f svc-minio-service-backup.json
+```
diff --git a/contrib/seaweedfs/UPDGRADE.md b/contrib/seaweedfs/UPDGRADE.md
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index 0000000000..0193a91844
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+++ b/contrib/seaweedfs/UPDGRADE.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Upgrade SeaweedFS
+
+Change the image tag in the Deployment to the desired version. You can find the available images [here](https://hub.docker.com/r/chrislusf/seaweedfs).
diff --git a/contrib/seaweedfs/base/kustomization.yaml b/contrib/seaweedfs/base/kustomization.yaml
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index 0000000000..166c238dae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/seaweedfs/base/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+namespace: kubeflow
+
+resources:
+- seaweedfs-deployment.yaml
+- seaweedfs-pvc.yaml
+- seaweedfs-service.yaml
+- seadweedfs-networkpolicy.yaml
diff --git a/contrib/seaweedfs/base/seadweedfs-networkpolicy.yaml b/contrib/seaweedfs/base/seadweedfs-networkpolicy.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6d2cffbdc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/seaweedfs/base/seadweedfs-networkpolicy.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
+kind: NetworkPolicy
+metadata:
+  name: seaweedfs
+spec:
+  ingress:
+  - from:
+    - namespaceSelector:
+        matchExpressions:
+        - key: app.kubernetes.io/part-of
+          operator: In
+          values:
+          - kubeflow-profile
+    - namespaceSelector:
+        matchExpressions:
+        - key: kubernetes.io/metadata.name
+          operator: In
+          values:
+          - istio-system
+    - podSelector: {}
+  podSelector:
+    matchExpressions:
+    - key: app
+      operator: In
+      values:
+      - seaweedfs
+  policyTypes:
+  - Ingress
diff --git a/contrib/seaweedfs/base/seaweedfs-deployment.yaml b/contrib/seaweedfs/base/seaweedfs-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..002c4eef9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/seaweedfs/base/seaweedfs-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: seaweedfs
+  namespace: kubeflow
+  labels:
+    app: seaweedfs
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: seaweedfs
+  strategy:
+    type: Recreate
+  # Single container setup not scalable
+  replicas: 1
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: seaweedfs
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: seaweedfs
+        image: 'chrislusf/seaweedfs:3.69'
+        args:
+        - 'server'
+        - '-dir=/data'
+        - '-s3'
+        ports:
+        - containerPort: 8333
+        readinessProbe:
+          httpGet:
+            path: /status
+            port: 8333
+            scheme: HTTP
+          initialDelaySeconds: 15
+          periodSeconds: 15
+          successThreshold: 1
+          failureThreshold: 100
+          timeoutSeconds: 10
+        securityContext:  # Using restricted profile
+          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
+          privileged: false
+          runAsNonRoot: true
+          # image defaults to root user
+          runAsUser: 1001
+          runAsGroup: 1001
+          seccompProfile:
+            type: RuntimeDefault
+          capabilities:
+            drop:
+            - ALL
+            add:
+            - NET_BIND_SERVICE
+        volumeMounts:
+        - mountPath: /data
+          name: data
+        resources:
+          # Benchmark this, just taken from minio
+          requests:
+            cpu: 20m
+            memory: 100Mi
+      volumes:
+      - name: data
+        persistentVolumeClaim:
+          claimName: seaweedfs-pvc
diff --git a/contrib/seaweedfs/base/seaweedfs-pvc.yaml b/contrib/seaweedfs/base/seaweedfs-pvc.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b0302f9cb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/seaweedfs/base/seaweedfs-pvc.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
+metadata:
+  name: seaweedfs-pvc
+  namespace: kubeflow
+spec:
+  accessModes:
+  - ReadWriteOnce
+  resources:
+    requests:
+      storage: 20Gi
diff --git a/contrib/seaweedfs/base/seaweedfs-service.yaml b/contrib/seaweedfs/base/seaweedfs-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d44ba3e614
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/seaweedfs/base/seaweedfs-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: minio-service
+  namespace: kubeflow
+spec:
+  ports:
+  - name: http
+    port: 9000
+    protocol: TCP
+    targetPort: 8333
+  selector:
+    app: seaweedfs
diff --git a/contrib/seaweedfs/istio/istio-authorization-policy.yaml b/contrib/seaweedfs/istio/istio-authorization-policy.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..409b2c1b4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/seaweedfs/istio/istio-authorization-policy.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+apiVersion: security.istio.io/v1beta1
+kind: AuthorizationPolicy
+metadata:
+  name: seaweedfs-service
+spec:
+  action: ALLOW
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: seaweedfs
+  rules:
+  - from:
+    - source:
+        principals:
+        - cluster.local/ns/kubeflow/sa/ml-pipeline
+  - from:
+    - source:
+        principals:
+        - cluster.local/ns/kubeflow/sa/ml-pipeline-ui
+  # Allow traffic from User Pipeline Pods, which don't have a sidecar.
+  - {}
+---
+apiVersion: "networking.istio.io/v1alpha3"
+kind: DestinationRule
+metadata:
+  name: ml-pipeline-seaweedfs
+spec:
+  host: minio-service.kubeflow.svc.cluster.local
+  trafficPolicy:
+    tls:
+      mode: ISTIO_MUTUAL
diff --git a/contrib/seaweedfs/istio/kustomization.yaml b/contrib/seaweedfs/istio/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2dffd5d150
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/seaweedfs/istio/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+namespace: kubeflow
+
+resources:
+- ../base/
+- istio-authorization-policy.yaml
diff --git a/contrib/seaweedfs/test.sh b/contrib/seaweedfs/test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..f55ca2135e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/seaweedfs/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -xe
+
+kubectl create ns kubeflow || echo "namespace kubeflow already exists"
+kubectl get -n kubeflow svc minio-service -o=jsonpath='{.metadata.annotations.kubectl\.kubernetes\.io/last-applied-configuration}' > svc-minio-service-backup.json
+kustomize build istio/ | kubectl apply --server-side -f -
+kubectl -n kubeflow wait --for=condition=available --timeout=600s deploy/seaweedfs
+kubectl -n kubeflow exec deployments/seaweedfs -c seaweedfs -- sh -c "echo \"s3.configure -user minio -access_key minio -secret_key minio123 -actions Read,Write,List -apply\" | /usr/bin/weed shell"
+
+kubectl -n kubeflow port-forward svc/minio-service 8333:9000
+echo "S3 endpoint available on localhost:8333" &
+
+function trap_handler {
+ kubectl -n kubeflow logs -l app=seaweedfs --tail=100
+ kustomize build istio/ | kubectl delete -f -
+ kubectl apply -f svc-minio-service-backup.json
+}
+
+trap trap_handler EXIT