Revision as of 15:52, 15 October 2010

OpenStack Manuals

These manuals are drafts, ready for writing:

• [[[NovaAdminManual||OpenStack] Compute Administration Manual ]]
• [[[NovaDeploymentManual|| OpenStack] Compute Deployment Manual ]]
• [[[NovaUserManual|| OpenStack] Compute End User Manual ]]

These guides are available and sourced in .rst files in /doc/source/ if you want to modify them:

• OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Administrator's Guide
• OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Deployment Guide

Getting Started with OpenStack

How to evaluate OpenStack and the technology behind it.

• Release Notes for the Austin release
• About OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)
• What is OpenStack Compute (Nova)?
• Quickstart Guide
• Case studies

Release Notes

Lists what's new and what's changed in each release as well as known issues and potential workarounds.

• [[[ReleaseNotes|| Release Notes]]]

Installation

How to install either Swift or Nova.

• [[[SwiftInstall|| Object Storage (Swift) Installation ]]]
• [[[NovaInstall|| Compute (Nova) Installation ]]]

Configuration

How to configure Swift for object storage and Nova for managing cloud software.

• Configuring Object Storage (Swift)
• Flag Files for Nova
  • nova-api
  • nova-compute

Security

Describes security, authorization, authentication, and trust management.

Development

How to contribute code to OpenStack or develop using the OpenStack projects.

• Coding Standards
• Design Tenets
• [[[LifeWithBzrAndLaunchpad|| Learning bzr and Launchpad ]]]
• Getting the Code (using Launchpad and bzr)

Troubleshooting

How to apply a process to troubleshooting when you see errors or problems.

• Troubleshooting Swift

Support

How to find or ask for support.

• Mailing Lists
• Questions and Answers
• OpenStack FAQ
• Launchpad Answers

Glossary

• Glossary - Contains terms that are our definitions for OpenStack, cloud computing, and open source.