Inventories

An inventory connects Plakar Control Plane to a provider and exposes a list of resources available for management. Resources are the individual entities you can back up, use as storage, or restore to, for example, EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and their equivalents across other supported cloud providers.

Once an inventory is connected, you can attach apps to each resource. Plakar Control Plane supports three app types:

• Source - the resource being backed up
• Store - where backups are stored
• Destination - where data is restored to

Managed inventories connect to a provider using credentials. Plakar Control Plane then automatically discovers and classifies resources in your account.

For example, in an AWS inventory:

• EC2 instances are classified as compute resources
• S3 buckets are classified as storage resources

Managed inventories are supported for:

• AWS
• OVHcloud
• Scaleway
• Google Cloud
• VMware

Self-managed inventories allow you to add resources manually, either individually or in bulk. This approach is useful when:

• The infrastructure is not supported by managed inventories (e.g., a local MinIO instance)
• You require full control over how resources are defined and managed

Configuration bundles let you define shared credentials and settings at the inventory level and apply them automatically to matching resources. This avoids having to configure the same credentials individually on each discovered resource. See configuration bundles for details.