Introduction
What is OpenSVC
OpenSVC is an open-source software product and the name of the company developing and supporting it. In production since 2009, OpenSVC consists of:
- Agent: A supervisor, clusterware, container orchestrator, and configuration manager (Apache 2.0 licensed since v3).
- Collector: Optionally, aggregates agent data and manages configuration, infrastructure, and resources (Apache 2.0 licensed).
Why OpenSVC
- Service Mobility: Ensures high availability and scalability.
- Configuration Management: Handles thousands of servers and clusters with minimal dependencies.
- Inventoring: Tracks assets, storage, networks, and services.
- Orchestration: RESTful API, self-service portal, provisioning, fine-grained delegation.
- Auditing: Monitors performance, alerts, and audits infrastructure and services.
- Productivity Boost: Reduces infrastructure maintenance and allows for task delegation.
Requirements
OpenSVC runs on Linux servers.
| 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 |