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Documentation is community-oriented and available for different audiences on several websites - this wiki is for fast, changing documentation, the developer documentation for the projects is on [http://nova.openstack.org/  nova.openstack.org], [http://swift.openstack.org/ swift.openstack.org], and soon glance.openstack.org. We're developing docs.openstack.org for the Bexar release in Feb 2011.
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We write draft documentation on the wiki or in Etherpad. These manuals are drafts on the wiki, ready for writing:
 
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* [[Glossary]] - Contains terms that are our definitions for [[OpenStack]], cloud computing, and open source.
 
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Revision as of 03:20, 29 December 2010

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OpenStack software documentation

Documentation is community-oriented and available for different audiences on several websites - this wiki is for fast, changing documentation, the developer documentation for the projects is on nova.openstack.org, swift.openstack.org, and soon glance.openstack.org. We're developing docs.openstack.org for the Bexar release in Feb 2011.

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OpenStack draft manuals

Administration and Deployment

We write draft documentation on the wiki or in Etherpad. These manuals are drafts on the wiki, 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 work on them:

Getting Started with OpenStack

How to evaluate OpenStack and the technology behind it.

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.

Configuration

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

Security

Describes security, authorization, authentication, and trust management.

Troubleshooting

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

Support

How to find or ask for support.

Glossary

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

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Project documentation

Development

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

Launchpad reference

How we use Launchpad to track features, bugs and releases.

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