Introduction

What is OpenSVC

OpenSVC is a Open Source software product and the name of the commercial entity developping and supporting it. The product will be referenced as « OpenSVC » and the company « OpenSVC co ».

This software is used in large scale and critical production since 2009.

OpenSVC is composed of two software components:

Agent

The OpenSVC agent is a supervisor, clusterware, container orchestrator and configuration manager. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.

Collector

The collector aggregates the agents-reported data and the data fetched from the sites infrastructure (network, SAN, storage arrays, backup servers and asset managers). It also serves the configuration management targets. The collector is a web 2.0 application (Apache 2.0 license). The clustering and container orchestration features of the OpenSVC agent don’t require a collector.

These two components together address a wide range of modern IT concerns, including:

• Service mobility

  • business continuity

  • high availability clustering

  • scalable replicating services

  • providing reliable and abstracted method to deploy, purge, stop, start and move a service or a group of services

• Configuration management

  • scalable to thousands of servers, services and configuration rules

  • cluster aware

  • minimal dependencies

  • strict separation of configuration targets from audit and remediation methods

• Inventoring

  • services

  • assets

  • storage arrays and SAN

  • networks

  • backups

  • cloud-hosted resources

  • software and hardware lifecycle management

  • infrastructure resources accounting and billing

• Orchestration and interoperability

  • pervasive RestFul API

  • self-service portal

  • provisioning

  • fine-grained privileges and tasks delegation capabilities

• Continuous infrastructure, systems, and services auditing

  • alarming

  • performance and quality analysis

  • trending

  • file changes recording

  • servers differential analysis

• Boost the IT productivity

  • low total cost of ownership

  • minimal infrastructure maintenance

  • maximize the delegation of tasks to lower-grade profiles

  • speed tasks through automation and/or self service

  • focus the higher-grade profiles on orchestration and configuration management designing

  • shorten post-mortem analysis

OpenSVC is operating system, application and hardware agnostic.

Subsystems requirements

Subsystem	Agent	Collector
Service mobility, clustering, container orchestration	O
Configuration management	O	O
Inventoring	O	O
Orchestration and interoperability	O	O
Continuous infrastructure, systems, and services auditing	O	O
Boost the IT productivity	O	O