FreezerRoadmap

Releases
As numerous companies are still running Kilo based OpenStacks, we believe Freezer needs support from that version onward. For that reason we are still catching up with OpenStack's release cycle:


 * Kilo will be tagged on 13/11/2015
 * Liberty will be tagged on 18/12/2015 latest
 * Work on Mitaka will start after that date

Architecture

 * Spliting the freezer-scheduler into: [mitaka]
 * freezer-scheduler: daemon only that schedules backup/restore jobs using the freezer-agent.
 * python-freezerclient: api client used for job management.

Openstack Integration

 * freezer-api should use oslo.logging and oslo.config [liberty]
 * freezer-scheduler should use oslo.logging and oslo.config [mitaka]
 * freezer-agent should use oslo.logging and oslo.config [mitaka]
 * python-freezerclient should use cliff [mitaka]
 * Move to Tempest for integration test [mitaka]
 * Oslo.policy integration
 * Bandit integration

Freezer features

 * Support for new types of application-aware backup:
 * Pluggable backup mode abstraction layer
 * Oracle Database backup
 * Postresql Database backup
 * Redis Database backup
 * Elasticsearch Database backup
 * Support for SSL connections


 * Support for new backend to store backup:
 * Pluggable storage backend abstraction layer
 * Tape backend


 * Job session related:
 * Sessions names
 * Time synchronisation improvement
 * Synchronized backup across multiple technologies


 * Consistency check after a restore
 * Support for block based incremental [liberty]
 * Parallel backup upload to multiple backend fully supported (engine already merged) [liberty]
 * Support for properties that span across multiple actions on a json job definition [liberty]
 * Data deduplication
 * Define the metadata information across any type of backups or on any case
 * Backup listing from python-freezerclient [liberty]
 * Showing the content of a backup

Refactoring

 * Logging audit and improvement (what is logged and with which log level) [liberty]
 * Name collision prevention:
 * freezer-scheduler client_id [liberty]
 * freezer-agent backup_name

Goals continuously delivered

 * More and more features available though the Horizon Web UI
 * Improve documentation
 * Improve test coverage
 * Improve usability
 * Improve security

Miscellaneous

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