Developers Guide

This is the Apache CloudStack developers guide. This section gives information for those wishing to develop CloudStack either contributing to the CloudStack core software or writing external plugins. Futher information can also be found at CloudStack’s wiki https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Home and on the CloudStack mailing lists http://cloudstack.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

• CloudStack Installation from GIT repo for Developers
  • Prerequisites
  • Installing CloudStack from Source
  • Using the Simulator
  • Building non-free Packages
  • 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
• Getting Help
  • Documentation Available
  • Books
  • Commercial support