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Welcome to Cinder's developer documentation! ==========================================
Cinder is the project name for OpenStack Compute, a cloud computing fabric controller, the main part of an IaaS system. Individuals and organizations can use Cinder to host and manage their own cloud computing systems. Cinder originated as a project out of NASA Ames Research Laboratory.
Cinder is written with the following design guidelines in mind:
- Component based architecture: Quickly add new behaviors
- Highly available: Scale to very serious workloads
- Fault-Tolerant: Isolated processes avoid cascading failures
- Recoverable: Failures should be easy to diagnose, debug, and rectify
- Open Standards: Be a reference implementation for a community-driven api
- API Compatibility: Cinder strives to provide API-compatible with popular systems like Amazon EC2
This documentation is generated by the Sphinx toolkit and lives in the source tree. Additional draft and project documentation on Cinder and other components of OpenStack can be found on the OpenStack wiki. Cloud administrators, refer to docs.openstack.org.
Developer Docs
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API Extensions
Go to http://api.openstack.org for information about Compute API extensions.
Outstanding Documentation Tasks
Indices and tables
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