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OpenStack User Guides

This section provides user-focused documentation for OpenStack services, explaining how to create, manage, and consume cloud resources using the OpenStack dashboard, command-line tools, and APIs.

  • Bare Metal Service (Ironic)

    The Bare Metal service allows users to provision and manage physical servers as cloud resources, similar to virtual machines but with direct access to hardware.

    Getting started

  • Compute service (Nova)

    The Compute service enables users to launch, manage, resize, and delete virtual machine instances running on OpenStack compute nodes.

    Getting started

  • Placement service (Placement)

    The Placement service exposes information about available resources and allocations, helping users understand how workloads are scheduled in the cloud.

    Getting started

  • Container Infrastructure Management service (Magnum)

    Magnum allows users to create and manage container orchestration clusters, such as Kubernetes, using OpenStack resources.

    Getting started

  • Image service (Glance)

    The Image service enables users to upload, manage, and share virtual machine and bare metal images used to launch workloads.

    Getting started

  • Shared File Systems service (Manila)

    Manila allows users to create and access shared file systems that can be mounted by multiple instances.

    Getting started

  • DNS service (Designate)

    Designate enables users to manage DNS zones and records for their cloud resources through OpenStack APIs and clients.

    Getting started

  • Load-balancer service (Octavia)

    The Load-balancer service allows users to distribute incoming traffic across multiple application instances for scalability and availability.

    Getting started

  • Messaging service (Zaqar)

    Zaqar provides a messaging service that applications can use to exchange messages and notifications in a scalable way.

    Getting started

  • Identity service (Keystone)

    The Identity service enables users to authenticate, obtain tokens, and discover available OpenStack services and endpoints.

    Getting started

  • Database service (Trove)

    Trove allows users to deploy and manage database instances without handling the underlying database infrastructure.

    Getting started

  • Infrastructure Optimization service (Watcher)

    Watcher provides recommendations that help users understand resource usage and improve efficiency of their workloads.

    Getting started

  • Resource reservation service (Blazar)

    Blazar allows users to reserve cloud resources in advance to ensure capacity availability for planned workloads.

    Getting started