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Karbor
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Application Data Protection as a Service for OpenStack

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Mission Statement
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To protect the Data and Metadata that comprises an OpenStack-deployed
Application against loss/damage (e.g. backup, replication) by providing a
standard framework of APIs and services that allows vendors to provide plugins
through a unified interface

Open Architecture
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Design for multiple perspectives:

* User: Protect App Deployment

  * Configure and manage custom protection plans on the deployed resources
    (topology, VMs, volumes, images, …)

* Admin: Define Protectable Resources

  * Decide what plugins protect which resources, what is available for the user
  * Decide where users can protect their resources

* Vendors: Standard API for protection products

  * Create plugins that implement Protection mechanisms for different OpenStack 
    resources

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Links
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* Free software: Apache license
* Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/karbor
* Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/karbor
* Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/karbor

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Features
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Version 0.1
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* Resource API
* Plan API
* Bank API
* Ledger API
* Cross-resource dependencies

Limitations
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* Only 1 Bank plugin per Protection Plan
* Automatic object discovery not supported