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Deployment Options​

CategoryDetails
Types
  • On-Premises
  • Managed Service: Available through partners
  • SaaS: Available through partners
Container (recommended)
  • Docker Compose or Podman
  • Kubernetes Helm Charts (Q2 / 2025)
Bare-Metal (not officially supported)
  • OpenCloud can run as a single binary. However, integrating additional services like Collabora, Apache Tika for search, or antivirus is not documented. Bare-metal deployments are not officially supported by OpenCloud. They are great for quick evaluation but are undocumented and have a minimalist feature set.

Backup​

CategoryDetails
Backup strategy
  • Snapshots: Backups can be easily done solely through storage snapshots, eliminating the need for complex database backups.

Security​

CategoryDetails
Encryption
  • Transport Encryption: TLS
  • Server-Side Encryption: S3 SSE
  • E2EE Client-Side Encryption: Handled exclusively via OS-native encryption
Access management
  • RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)
  • 2FA / MFA
  • SSO (LDAP, SAML, OAuth)
Auditing & Logging
  • Detailed logs, audit trails, monitoring APIs
File Firewall
  • Prevent upload of restricted filetypes based on a allow- or denylist.
Antivirus
  • ClamAV (default)
  • ICAP: Integrate 3rd party anti-virus scanner via Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP)
Data Loss Prevention
  • Collabora Secure View

Identity Management​

CategoryDetails
Integrated
  • Integrated user and group management (LibreIDM) for up to 500 users. Designed for standalone or small-sized deployments that do not rely on third-party identity services, usually for friends and family.
External
  • OpenID Connect (OIDC): Integration of external identity providers via Keycloak.
  • Integration of Azure AD, EntraID, ADFS

Compliance​

RegulationDetails
EU-GDPR
  • Compliant
WCAG 2.1 / BITV 2.0 Web Accessibility
  • Compliant. To prevent accessibility regressions, we treat any accessibility violation as a bug and continuously fix these issues as part of our daily software development lifecycle.

High Availability​

CategoryDetails
Redundancy & Failover
  • Supported in clustered environments to ensure high availability and system reliability.
  • Automatic failover mechanisms help minimize downtime in case of hardware or software failures.

Integrations​

CategoryDetails
Plugins & Extensibility
  • Web: Extension system for adding custom functionality.
  • Server: Microservices architecture for modular and scalable server-side extensions

APIs​

APIDescription
WebDAV
  • Standard file API for remote file management over HTTP/HTTPS.
GraphAPI
  • Microsoft Graph API for managing cloud storage and collaboration spaces.
gRPC
  • High-performance RPC framework for microservice communication.
OCS
  • API for programmatic file/folder sharing and management.
OCM
  • Open Cloud Mesh API for federated file and folder sharing between different file cloud platforms like Cernbox, ownCloud, Nextcloud or Seafile .
SSE
  • Server-sent event stream for real-time client notifications.
WOPI
  • Microsoft API for integrating Office apps with third-party storage, e.g., Collabora.
KQL
  • Keyword Query Language (KQL) is a search language to perform advanced searches by filtering and querying structured data, metadata, and documents efficiently.
ICAP
  • Network protocol for offloading content scanning (e.g., antivirus).