This repository contains the cloud administrator documentation for the OpenStack project. It includes documentation for:

• OpenStack Compute
• OpenStack Identity Service
• OpenStack Image Service
• OpenStack Object Storage
• OpenStack Dashboard
• OpenStack Network Connectivity
• OpenStack Volumes

For more details, see the OpenStack Documentation HowTo wiki page.

In addition to the guides, this repository contains:

• docs.openstack.org: www
• tools for gating tests prior to merging documentation in this repo

Apache Maven must be installed to build the documentation.

To install Maven 3 for Ubuntu 12.04 and later,and Debian wheezy and later:

apt-get install maven

On Fedora 15 and later:

yum install maven3

The different manuals are in subdirectories of the openstack-manuals/doc/ directory.

For example, the root directory of the OpenStack User Guide is openstack-manuals/doc/user-guide.

To build a specific guide, look for a pom.xml file within a subdirectory, then run the mvn command in that directory. For example:

cd openstack-manuals/doc/user-guide/
mvn clean generate-sources

The generated PDF documentation file is:

openstack-manuals/doc/user-guide/target/docbkx/webhelp/user-guide.pdf

The root of the generated HTML documentation is:

openstack-manuals/doc/src/user-guide/target/docbkx/webhelp/user-guide/content/index.html

Our community welcomes all people interested in open source cloud computing, and there are no formal membership requirements. The best way to join the community is to talk with others online or at a meetup and offer contributions through our processes, the OpenStack wiki, blogs, or on IRC at #openstack on irc.freenode.net.

We welcome all types of contributions, from blueprint designs to documentation to testing to deployment scripts.

Refer to http://docs.openstack.org to see where these documents are published and to learn more about the OpenStack project.