Smaug

Application Data Protection as a Service for OpenStack

Mission Statement

• Formalize Application Data Protection in OpenStack (APIs, Services, Plugins, …)
• Be able to protect Any Resource in OpenStack(as well as their dependencies)
• Allow Diversity of vendor solutions, capabilities and implementations without compromising usability

Open Architecture

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

Links

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

Features

Version 0.1

• Resource API
• Plan API
• Bank API
• Ledger API
• Cross-resource dependencies

Limitations

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