.. Copyright 2010-2012 United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. Welcome to Cinder's developer documentation! ============================================ Cinder is an OpenStack project to provide "block storage as a service". * **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 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`_. .. _`OpenStack wiki`: http://wiki.openstack.org .. _`docs.openstack.org`: http://docs.openstack.org Developer Docs ============== .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 devref/index database_architecture scheduler-filters scheduler-weights oslo-middleware Drivers ======= Cinder maintains drivers for volume backends, backup targets, and fibre channel zone manager fabric types. The list of the available drivers can be found here: .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 drivers API Extensions ============== Go to http://api.openstack.org for information about Cinder API extensions. Sample Configuration File ========================= .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 sample_config Indices and tables ================== * :ref:`genindex` * :ref:`modindex` * :ref:`search`