This was a fairly easy integration since Wasabi uses the standard Amazon S3 API: most of the work went into adding Wasabi to the Zenko Orbit management interface and then testing it. What this integration means is that Zenko Orbit users can now replicate data between Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage buckets and all supported backends: AWS S3, local storage, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Scality’s own RING… and more are coming.
Wasabi is a very competitive storage vendor and we believe adding it to Zenko Orbit is proof of Scality’s commitment to bring freedom and control to people who create value with data. We encourage you to check out the new integration and would love to hear what you think on our forum!
Since Zenko is an open-source project, you can influence where it goes next! Let us know what you’d like to see us support as Zenko’s next backend by opening a thread on the forum! Or you can add a new extension yourself and contribute it to the community with a pull request! Of course, we’ll be there to help every step of the way.
Let’s all welcome Wasabi to the ever-growing family of Zenko-supported data backends!
I’ve been following OpenStack for many years now and during the past few months I became more excited noticing how the project has become the home of open infrastructure. The OpenStack Foundation invested a lot of energy in the past year to visibly expand its scope and reach out to other communities and projects. The OpenStack Summits have been hosting lots of content about Kubernetes, Docker and use cases that go beyond public/private clouds using OpenStack. Multi-cloud and multiple technologies were so comfortably at home at the Sydney Summit that when I started reviewing the sponsoring plans for the rest of 2018 for Zenko, the OpenStack Summit felt like a natural fit.
Zenko is the open source multi-cloud data controller and OpenStack is the open source community where all open infrastructure comes together to innovate.
We’re sponsoring the OpenStack Superuser Award to celebrate the innovators in multi-cloud and open infrastructure. The nominees for the awards have been published, great companies and people bringing new meaning to automatic infrastructure. Go read their profiles and vote for your favorite candidate:
The voting process will be open until Tuesday, April 24 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time Zone. Based on community voting, the Superuser Editorial Advisory Board will review the nominees and determine the finalists and overall winner.
We’ll see each other next at the Vancouver Summit, on stage where the Zenko team will hand the Superuser award to the winning team.
If you want to see extreme use cases of huge storage and distribution needs you go check the demos at NAB. Our colleagues at Scality are going to demonstrate how to use the multi-cloud capabilities of Zenko in a typical workflow, culminating in a multi-CDN distribution of a video. The demo consists in a movie being edited with Adobe Premiere to add some background music and overlays. Once saved, a simple Python script is invoked to transcode the movie in multiple versions optimized for different types of devices using FFMpeg. Each resulting file is uploaded to a single Zenko instance where the magic happens: the newly uploaded files are automatically replicated to two different locations, one in Amazon S3 and one in Azure Blob Storage, each with a CDN frontend.
Looking at the Python code that does the upload in Zenko you’ll notice how simple it is: just a RESTful PUT call to what looks just like a S3-compatible bucket. That’s what Zenko does: it keeps your code very simple and abstracts the complexity of managing a multi-cloud environment. The replication rules can be either managed with the Orbit web GUI or by editing configuration files. Besides, Zenko won’t mangle the files uploaded in the different clouds: we commit to giving you freedom and control of your data so you can still access the objects as they are uploaded, same file names and attributes.
Watch a recording of the demo below and if you’re at NAB, head to booth #SL9324 to meet Scality team.
