Introduction to OpenEBS
OpenEBS provides Container Attached Storage or CAS to the stateful applications on Kubernetes. MayaData is the founding company of the Open Source project OpenEBS, which is now a CNCF project. We are the largest contributor to the project and community development. The community operates primarily through the slack channel, where our team members and community members are very active in providing support to OpenEBS. The Open Source OpenEBS is referred to as Community Edition in this Help Center.
Enterprise Edition
OpenEBS Enterprise or OpenEBS Enterprise Edition or just Enterprise Edition is a rugged version released and maintained by MayaData for enterprise customers. More details about OpenEBS Enterprise Edition is already provided here.
Community Edition vs Enterprise Edition
Currently, the main difference between the two editions is rugged testing of the enterprise code and the support from MayaData through MayaData OpenEBS Enterprise Platform. If you are already using OpenEBS community edition in production or in test and want support, start by signing up at MayaData and connecting your cluster to OpenEBS director.
Moving to OpenEBS Enterprise from Community Edition
If you are already using OpenEBS Community Edition, to get support do the following:
- Sign Up to MayaData if you have not already done that.
- Connect your cluster which requires support for OpenEBS to Director Online. By default, your cluster will be under the free plan. Upgrade the cluster to the trial plan. You can now either chat with agents in the Help Center or submit a ticket to get support.
- If you do not wish to connect your cluster to Director Online either because of your security policies or air-gapped environment, you need to install Director OnPrem on one of your Kubernetes clusters or on the Kubernetes cluster to which you need the OpenEBS support for. Once the required cluster is connected to Director OnPrem, upgrade the cluster to the trial plan. You can now either chat with agents in the Help Center or submit a ticket to get support.
Starting directly with OpenEBS Enterprise
If you want to directly start with OpenEBS Enterprise on a new Kubernetes cluster, do the following:
- Sign Up to MayaData if you have not already done that.
- Connect the cluster to either Director Online or Director OnPrem.
- Upgrade the cluster from free plan to the trial plan to get support through the Help Center.
New to OpenEBS and not joined community yet?
Join community
OpenEBS community is very vibrant with many active users willing to help you get started. If you are not a part of the community, you may want to join the community slack
Read OpenEBS documentation
Documentation of community edition of OpenEBS is applicable to OpenEBS Enterprise also. For basic design, configuration and implementation of OpenEBS on your clusters refer to the OpenEBS documentation.