karbor/README.rst

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Karbor

Application Data Protection as a Service for OpenStack

Mission Statement

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

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: https://docs.openstack.org/karbor/latest/
• Source: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/karbor
• Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/karbor
• Release notes: https://docs.openstack.org/karbor/latest/releasenotes.html

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