This content is read-only now, any changes to operations guide will be done in the openstack-manuals repository where the guide lives in doc/ops-guide.

This repository contains the source files for the OpenStack Operations Guide.

You can read this guide at docs.openstack.org/ops.

It was originally authored during a book sprint in February 2013. Read more about Book Sprints at http://www.booksprints.net.

Additionally, a tools directory contains tools for testing this guide.

Prerequisites

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 20 and later:

yum install maven

Contributing

This book is undergoing a custom edit with O'Reilly publishing and we welcome contributions to make it as accurate as possible. Our target is the Havana release.

The style guide to follow is at chimera.labs.oreilly.com.

Our community welcomes all people interested in open source cloud computing, and encourages you to join the OpenStack Foundation. The best way to get involved with 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.

Testing of changes and building of the manual

Install the python tox package and run "tox" from the top-level directory to use the same tests that are done as part of our Jenkins gating jobs.

If you like to run individual tests, run:

tox -e checkniceness - to run the niceness tests

tox -e checksyntax - to run syntax checks

tox -e checkdeletions - to check that no deleted files are referenced

tox -e checkbuild - to actually build the manual

tox -e buildlang -- $LANG - to build the manual for language $LANG

tox will use the openstack-doc-tools package for execution of these tests.

Installing OpenStack

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