Meghdoot is an open source comprehensive cloud suite designed and developed by C-DAC. Meghdoot is a product of National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software program, comprising free and open source tools including OpenStack across all layers of Cloud with inhouse value additions. The product features automated deployment of cloud stack and provides a convenient environment through a portal to create, deploy, and scale a secure and reliable private Meghdoot cloud. It delivers a cloud platform built from open source cloud technology. Co-engineered and integrated with BOSS Linux, giving you the agility to scale and quickly meet customer demands without compromising on availability, security, or performance.

1. State Data Centres
2. BFSI Sectors
3. Defense Sectors
4. Academic and Research Institutes
5. Health Care

Features and Functionalities of Meghdoot

• Integrated IT Infrastructure: All-in-one Cloud solution for computing, storage, networking and backups.
• Highly Available Cloud Services 
• Mirrored and replicated database, messaging, and caching services.
• Distributed geo-replicated Cloud Images to efficiently manage and deploy cloud resources across different locations
• Live undisruptive services by migrating virtual machines between servers.
• Prepare for emergencies with an active-passive Disaster Recovery solution.
• Distributed Compute Nodes to efficiently run applications and services across multiple servers.
• Thin Provisioning: Optimizes resource utilization with thin provisioning.

• Software Defined Storage - Object, File and Block Storage with secure access and replication across different locations.
• Centralised Management with Web-based dashboard for easy control over all IT resources like servers, networks, storage and security.
• Software Defined Network (SDN) with OpenvSwitch (OVS) for flexible and efficient network management with virtual routers, switches, firewalls and load balancers for efficient network segmentation, supporting isolated tenant networks.
• Monitoring Solutions to keep track of system performance and security events.
• Lifecycle Management 
• Automated Upgrades and Rollbacks for  easy updates and reversions to keep systems running smoothly.
• Automated Backup and Restore to safeguard data and easily recover from incidents.
• Security Framework: Strong security measures to protect data, identity and inventories.
• Orchestration Solution: Automated management of workloads and resources.

Bharat Operating System Solutions

Hypervisors - KVM, Docker

Cloud Middleware - OpenStack and Kubernetes

Load balancers - HAproxy

Software Defined Storage - Ceph

Software Defined Network - Openvswitch

Monitoring and Backup Solutions

Prabha V A - prabhav@cdac.in

Kailash S - kailashs@cdac.in

Cloud - Cloudteam-chn@cdac.in