Getting Started¶

Project Scope and Vision¶

• Senlin provides a clustering solution for OpenStack cloud. A user can create clusters of node and associate policy to such a cluster.
• The software interacts with other components of OpenStack so that clusters of resources exposed by those components can be created and operated.
• The software complements Heat project each other so Senlin can create and manage clusters of Heat stacks while Heat can invoke Senlin APIs to orchestrate collections of homogeneous resources.
• Senlin provides policies as plugins that can be used to specify how clusters operate. Example policies include creation policy, placement policy, deletion policy, load-balancing policy, scaling policy etc.
• Senlin can interact with all other OpenStack components via profile plugins. Each profile type implementation enable Senlin to create resources provided by a corresponding OpenStack service.

Working with Senlin¶