Some of the below information is under reivew and update due to the migration from OpenSDS to SODA Foundation. If you have any questions, please post in SODA Slack. If you are not a member, please join [SODA Slack] (https://sodafoundation.io/slack/)

The OpenSDS Project is a collaborative project under Linux Foundation supported by storage users and vendors, including Dell EMC, Intel, Huawei, Fujitsu, Western Digital, Vodafone, NTT and Oregon State University. The project will also seek to collaborate with other upstream open source communities such as Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Docker, OpenStack, and Open Container Initiative.

It is a software defined storage controller that provides unified block, file, object storage services and focuses on:

• Simple: well-defined API that follows the OpenAPI specification.
• Lightweight: no external dependencies, deployed once in binary file or container.
• Extensible: pluggable framework available for different storage systems, identity services, capability filters, etc.

The OpenSDS community welcomes anyone who is interested in software defined storage and shaping the future of cloud-era storage. If you are a company, you should consider joining the OpenSDS Project. If you are a developer and would like to be part of the code development that is happening now, please refer to the Contributing sections below.

• Our Documentation : You can find the quick start guides and start using OpenSDS releases. See COMMUNITY for details on discussion of the OpenSDS architecture design and feature development.

Please refer to Try OpenSDS to start using our releases and knowing more.

OpenSDS is under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.

• Mailing list: opensds-tech-discuss
• slack: #opensds
• Ideas/Bugs: You can raise your ideas, requirements and issues at any of the projects under our git organization
• Join our community meetings. All the details, refer our global community meeting agenda and notes