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== OpenStack User Guide - Blueprint ==
 
  
WORK-IN-PROGRESS...
 
 
=== 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/
 
 
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/
 
Networking
 
http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-networking/
 
Dashboard, command-line clients, APIs, extensions
 
How to Interact with an OpenStack Cloud
 
Describe ways you can interact with a cloud:
 
OpenStack Command-line Clients
 
OpenStack APIs
 
Talk about ways to use the APIs – cURL? SDKs? Language bindings?
 
Horizon Dashboard
 
http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-dashboard/
 
 
=== Common User Tasks ===
 
Boot, list, and delete servers
 
Configure VNC
 
Attach and detach volumes
 
Create, list, and delete images
 
Load-balance xx
 
=== Tutorials ===
 
Provide tutorials for various use cases. Use different methods in each tutorial so user gets an idea of what’s possible.
 
==== Authenticate ====
 
Method: cURL commands with embedded API
 
==== Run Your Elastic Web Application 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
 
 
==== 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
 
 
Booting
 
Listing
 
Deleting/Terminating
 
Instance Console access
 
About console log
 
Configuring VNC
 
How do I attach a volume?
 
(Details on doing these actions in user guide) 
 
Attach/Detach volumes
 
How do I save a running instance to an image?
 
Snapshots
 

Latest revision as of 18:48, 25 July 2013