New Project - ekko

ekko is a project that will bring block-based backup to OpenStack in a
way that is scallable by using object-storage for the backend. The
backup itself is enabled by a new feature in QEMU 2.4 that allows for
changed block tracking and incremental backups of running VMs.

A common feature I have seen requested throughout the community is
true block-based backups of VMs. I have been working on a way to solve
the scalability issue of backups for a while [1] and now that QEMU has
officially released this feature we can bring backup to OpenStack in a
way that is as scallable as OpenStack itself using Swift as a backend.

This would be different than a nova snapshot because that is not a
true backup. That does not allow for the space savings of incremental
backups nor compression or encryption which are requirements for a
good backup in my experience.

Future goals would including bringing this to other hypervisors since
Hyper-V and VMWare both support CBT and incremental backups of running
VMs. As well as potentially backing up Cinder volumes in a similiar
fashion.

[1] https://github.com/SamYaple/osdk

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- name: openstack-dns
- name: openstack-doc
- name: openstack-dragonflow
- name: openstack-ekko
- name: openstack-entropy
- name: openstack-evoque
- name: openstack-foundation

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label-Workflow = -1..+1 group ekko-core
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description: AWS EC2 and VPC API support in standalone service for OpenStack.
- project: openstack/ec2-driver
description: Compute driver that uses BOTO API to utilize EC2.
- project: openstack/ekko
description: Incremental block-based backup to object storage
- project: openstack/election
description: OpenStack Elections repository
- project: openstack/entropy

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@ -486,6 +486,16 @@ openstack-dragonflow:
- master
- stable/kilo
openstack-ekko:
events:
- patchset-created
- change-merged
- x-vrif-minus-2
projects:
- openstack/ekko
branches:
- master
openstack-entropy:
events:
- patchset-created

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branch-override: default
network: 'nova-network'
- project:
name: ekko
node: bare-trusty
tarball-site: tarballs.openstack.org
jobs:
- python-jobs
- project:
name: elastic-recheck
node: bare-trusty

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@ -4676,6 +4676,11 @@ projects:
- name: merge-check
- name: noop-jobs
- name: openstack/ekko
template:
- name: merge-check
- name: python-jobs-linters
- name: openstack/election
template:
- name: merge-check