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== API documentation ==
 
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* [http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref.html]: Complete reference listing of OpenStack REST APIs with   
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* [http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref.html Complete API Reference]: Complete reference listing of OpenStack REST APIs with example requests and responses. 
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* [http://specs.openstack.org API specifications]: Within project's specification repos, some have opted to document API specifications, such as Identity.
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* [http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/#object-storage-v1-rest-api-documentation Object Storage API v1]
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Revision as of 22:08, 15 December 2014

Release specific documentation

The Installation Guides and Configuration Reference are released at release time, with draft material published to docs.openstack.org/trunk/. The rest of the guides are continuously released.

Installation Guides

The OpenStack Installation Guides describe a manual install process, as in, by hand, no automation, for multiple distributions based on packaging system:

Guides for deployers and administrators

OpenStack Configuration Reference: Contains a reference listing of all configuration options for core and integrated OpenStack services by release version.

Continously released documentation

These guides cover multiple versions and we follow the general release information. The guides cover thus the latest two versions, for example Icehouse and Havana. The following exceptions apply:

  • Operations Guide: Icehouse target, revised specifically to target that release
  • Security Guide: written prior to Havana release
  • HA Guide: updated last at Havana timeframe, still needs updates

Guides for deployers and administrators

Guides for end users

  • OpenStack End User Guide: Shows OpenStack end users how to create and manage resources in an OpenStack cloud with the OpenStack dashboard and OpenStack client commands.
  • OpenStack Admin User Guide: Shows OpenStack administrators how to create and manage resources in an OpenStack cloud with the OpenStack dashboard and OpenStack client commands.
  • OpenStack API Quick Start: A brief overview of how to send REST API requests to endpoints for OpenStack services.
  • Command-Line Interface Reference: Automatically generates help text for CLI commands and subcommands.

API documentation