Openstack Community Resources

You may find more specific information for your particular issues at one or more of these:

• Nectar Research Cloud User Forum: an open forum anybody can contribute to, share experiences or seek Q&A's.
• OpenStack
  • Project Home
  • OpenStack Docs
• API Reference basics for authenticating and using the Compute and Image APIs
• API Quick Start guide to using the OpenStack APIs
• OpenStack Clients offical and developing commandline clients
• OpenStack SDKs a range of language toolkits to interface with the OpenStack API
• Wiki per sub-project links to install instructions, developer documentation, code (github) & more
• CSS Corps' OpenStack (Essex version) Beginners Guide on Ubuntu Precise (PDF)
  • Mailing Lists Developer & Community Lists (you will need to have or create a launchpad account)
  • Launchpad project homes

    OpenStack,
    Nova,
    Swift,
    Glance,
    Keystone,
    Dashboard,
    Quantum,
    Cinder

  • Launchpad Questions & Answers forum at each sub-project,

    Nova,
    Swift,
    Glance,
    Keystone,
    Dashboard,
    Quantum,
    Cinder

  • Blog (a collection of thoughts from the developers and other key players of the OpenStack projects)
  • Twitter
  • IRC at irc://freenode a good option for asking questions, alternate web-browser version, logs are kept here
  • Google Groups OpenStack Australia
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Documentation, AWS shares many features with OpenStack
  • Software or Services to test out your own cloud!
• trystack.org hardware freely available to test Openstack applications
• devstack.org a script to install the Openstack development environment
• Swift All In One, setup a single VM that emulates a 4 node swift cluster