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Introduction

• Concepts and Terminology
  • What is Apache CloudStack?
  • What can Apache CloudStack do?
  • Deployment Architecture Overview
  • Cloud Infrastructure Concepts
  • CloudStack Terminology

Navigating the docs

Now that you have gone over the basic concepts of CloudStack you are ready to dive into the installation and operation.

See the Installation Guide

See the Administration Guide

See the Release Notes

Below you will find very specific documentation on advanced networking which you can skip if you are just getting started.

Developers will also find below a short developers guide.

Advanced Networking Guides

• The Nicira NVP Plugin
  • Introduction to the Nicira NVP Plugin
  • Configuring the Nicira NVP Plugin
  • Using the Nicira NVP plugin with VPC
  • Troubleshooting the Nicira NVP Plugin
  • Revision History
• The MidoNet Plugin
  • Introduction to the MidoNet Plugin
  • Using the MidoNet Plugin
  • Revision History
• The VXLAN Plugin
  • System Requirements for VXLAN
  • Linux Distributions that meet the requirements
  • Configure PRODUCT to use VXLAN Plugin
• The OVS Plugin
  • Introduction to the OVS Plugin
  • Configuring the OVS Plugin
  • Using the OVS plugin with VPC
  • Revision History
• IPv6 Support in CloudStack
  • Prerequisites and Guidelines
  • Limitations of IPv6 in CloudStack
  • Guest VM Configuration for DHCPv6
• Configuring AutoScale without using NetScaler
  • What is AutoScaling?
  • Hypervisor support
  • Prerequisites
  • Configuration
  • Disabling and Enabling an AutoScale Configuration
  • Updating an AutoScale Configuration
  • Runtime Considerations

Developers Guide

• CloudStack Installation from Source for Developers
  • Prerequisites
  • Installing from Source
  • Using the Simulator
  • Using DevCloud
  • Building Packages
  • The CloudStack API
  • Testing the AWS API interface
  • Conclusions
• Programmer Guide
  • The CloudStack API
  • Event Types
  • Time Zones
• Plugins
  • Storage Plugins
  • Third Party UI Plugins
• Allocators
  • Implementing a custom HostAllocator
  • Implementing a custom StoragePoolAllocator
• Deploying CloudStack with Ansible
  • What is Ansible
  • There’s already Chef and Puppet, so what’s the fuss about Ansible?
  • So let’s see something
  • Installing Ansible
  • Playbooks
  • Modules
  • Planning
  • MySQL
  • CloudStack Management server service
  • System VM Templates:
  • Bringing it all together
  • How is this example different from a production deployment?
  • Acknowledgements