Blueprint-os-user-docs
- Launchpad Entry: [1]
- Created: Diane Fleming
- Contributors:
Contents
- 1 Summary
- 2 Blueprint - OpenStack User Guide
- 2.1 CHAPTER 1: Overview
- 2.2 CHAPTER 2: Tutorials
- 2.2.1 OpenStack APIs
- 2.2.2 SECTION 4: How to Use the Tutorials in this Guide
- 2.2.3 TUTORIAL 1: Authenticate
- 2.2.4 TUTORIAL 2: Run Your Wordpress Blog on Your Cloud
- 2.2.5 TUTORIAL 3: Store Large Photos or Videos in Your Cloud
- 2.2.6 TUTORIAL 4: Create and Attach a Volume to Your Instance
- 2.2.7 TUTORIAL 5: Create an Isolated Network
- 3 Blueprint - OpenStack Command Reference (TBD)
Summary
This blueprint describes a plan to create documentation for OpenStack users. This documentation will provide a conceptual overview of the OpenStack cloud, and it will enable users to complete tasks in an OpenStack cloud. The tasks include authentication, booting a server, creating an image, listing instances, networks, volumes, and so on, deleting resources, accessing a console for an instance, and configuring VNC.
This documentation will provide a clear roadmap for users to interact with OpenStack clouds by using the dashboard and client commands and then progress to using the APIs directly.
The planned documentation includes:
Document | Purpose |
---|---|
OpenStack User Guide | Introduces users to cloud concepts, common tasks, and ways of interacting with the cloud. Through tutorials, shows users how to perform tasks in an OpenStack cloud through:
|
OpenStack Command Reference | Provides reference information that enables users to perform tasks through OpenStack command-line client commands. |
These documents will be partially sourced from existing documentation, and will reduce redundancy and increase usability, clarity, and consistency.
This blueprint is related to Blueprint Restructure Documentation.
Blueprint - OpenStack User Guide
Audience: Users of OpenStack clouds who perform tasks through the Horizon dashboard or the OpenStack command-line clients. Also, developers who create applications on top of OpenStack by using the OpenStack APIs.
Roadmap: Users ramp up on cloud computing by using the Horizon dashboard and the OpenStack command-line clients. Then, they use the OpenStack APIs to create scalable applications.
Product info: Havana, 2013.1
Include common glossary? Yes
Purpose:
- Explain OpenStack cloud concepts and describe how to use an OpenStack cloud.
- Include command-line tools and credentials, how to use Horizon dashboard, and how to create images.
- Exclude Cloud application architecture.
Source material:
- OpenStack API Quick Start
- Python Developer Documentation
- Language Bindings Documentation
- OpenStack Clients Guide
- OpenStack Administration Guides
- OpenStack API Specifications
- Programming OpenStack Compute API with Shell and Python
CHAPTER 1: Overview
One-to-two paragraph description of the OpenStack cloud. Descriptions of the OpenStack projects. State the goals of the book - concepts, set-up, and tutorials.
SECTION 1: OpenStack Cloud Concepts
Describe the main concepts that a user needs to understand to use the cloud.
- Authentication/Identity service - http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-shared-services/
- Images, Image service - What’s an image? What’s a snapshot? http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-shared-services/
- Servers - What is a virtual machine? A hypervisor? A server personality? What does it mean to boot a server? http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-compute/. Also, http://docs.openstack.org/cli/quick-start/content/nova_client.html
- Security groups - http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-compute/
- Floating IP addresses
- Console log
- Object and block storage - http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-storage/
- Block storage concepts: Backend Storage Devices, Users and Tenants (Projects), Volumes Snapshots and Backups
- Networking - http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-networking/
SECTION 2: Common User Tasks
- Boot, list, and delete servers
- Attach and detach volumes
- Save a running instance to an image - Create, list, and delete images
- Load-balance xx
- Create an isolated network
- Access a console for an instance
- Configure VNC
- Create, attach, and detach a volume
SECTION 3: How to Interact with an OpenStack Cloud
Describe ways you can interact with a cloud:
Horizon Dashboard
http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-dashboard/
How the OpenStack Command-line Clients Work
- provide x-ref to OpenStack Command Reference.
Base off of: http://docs.rackspace.com/servers/api/v2/cn-gettingstarted/content/novaclient.html
How cURL Commands Work
Base off of: http://docs.rackspace.com/servers/api/v2/cn-gettingstarted/content/curl.html
CHAPTER 2: Tutorials
OpenStack APIs
Talk about ways to use the APIs – cURL? SDKs? Language bindings?
Questions:
- Do I tell them how to install the dashboard and the clients? It might make sense to do that - I could share files with the Install Guide - what do you think?
SECTION 4: How to Use the Tutorials in this Guide
Base off of: http://docs.rackspace.com/servers/api/v2/cn-gettingstarted/content/ch_how_examples_work.html
Provide tutorials for various use cases. Use different methods in each tutorial so user gets an idea of what’s possible.
TUTORIAL 1: Authenticate
Method: cURL commands with embedded API
TUTORIAL 2: Run Your Wordpress Blog on Your Cloud
Method: nova client Set up a user, get images for your application servers, spin up server instances, install Wordpress and its dependencies. http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/running-elastic-web-app-cloud.html
TUTORIAL 3: Store Large Photos or Videos in Your Cloud
Method: swift client and Cyberduck application Set up secure access to OpenStack Object Storage, configure Cyberduck to connect to OpenStack Object Storage, and copy files to the cloud. http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-object-storage/admin/content/storing-large-photos-or-videos-on-the-cloud.html
TUTORIAL 4: Create and Attach a Volume to Your Instance
Method: cinder and nova clients Use case? http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-block-storage/admin/content/block_storage_overview.html#managing-volumes
TUTORIAL 5: Create an Isolated Network
Method: nova and quantum clients Use case? http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-network/admin/content/basic_operations.html
Blueprint - OpenStack Command Reference (TBD)
Purpose
- Describe command-line clients and their subcommands and required and optional parameters.
- Write scripts to auto-generate command and command parameters from the code.
- Use conditional tags to generate two versions of this book: One with admin commands, and one without.
- Exclude concepts (these go in the OpenStack User Guide) or installation instructions (these go in the OpenStack Installation Guide).
Source material