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Documentation/ContentSpecs

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.

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


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

Guides for deployers and administrators:

OpenStack Cloud Administrator Guide: Contains how-to information for managing an OpenStack cloud as needed for your use cases, such as storage, computing, or software-defined-networking.

OpenStack High Availability Guide: Describes potential strategies for making your OpenStack services and related controllers and data stores highly available.

OpenStack Security Guide: Provide best practices and conceptual information about securing an OpenStack cloud.

Virtual Machine Image Guide: Shows you how to obtain, create, and modify virtual machine images that are compatible with OpenStack.

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.