About Zenko¶
Zenko is Scality’s multi-cloud storage controller. It provides a single point of integration using the Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage cloud storage APIs, and enables data backup, transfer, and replication across private and public clouds.
Using Zenko, you can store to a Scality RING storage device and automatically back up to one or several public clouds. Alternatively, you can use a public cloud such as Amazon S3 as primary storage and replicate data stored there–specific files, file types, or entire buckets–to other supported clouds, such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure.
The Zenko open-source project, described at https://www.zenko.io/ and hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/scality/Zenko, provides the core logic of the Zenko product. This core is a stack of microservices, written primarily in Node.js and some Python, that provides a RESTful API that handles the complexities of translating S3 API calls into actions on various cloud storage platforms.
Based on the latest stable branch of open-source Zenko, the Zenko Enterprise product offers full Scality support to build and maintain the topology that works best for your organization, use of the Orbit graphical user interface beyond 1 TB of data under management, and other value-added features Scality elects to offer.
Zenko can be accessed and managed through the Orbit GUI, or using direct API calls. Because Orbit acts as a seamless management interface to Zenko, people may confuse the interface (Orbit) with the underlying logic (Zenko). You can access Zenko from Orbit, or from the command line. Where it makes sense, Scality provides APIs to help customize, automate, and improve interactions with Zenko.
