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h1. General Information
Aeolus is software for running virtual machines both internally on your own equipment, and in Clouds from several leading vendors. All at the same time.
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- Further Information
- **Get It ** **Use It ** Latest News
- ] about Aeolus
- ]~~ view our current development plan
- Glossary of Terms
- Frequently Asked Questions / FAQs
- Competitor Analysis
- Aeolus vs. OpenStack - A comparison
If you have further questions, please feel free to contact us.
After following the Use It instructions, use these guides to explore other features.
- Launching Instances - A quick guide to building, pushing, and launching images from Conductor
- Building Images for RHEL - How to build images for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Building Images for Windows - Building Windows guests is not supported by Aeolus at this time
- [[Oz_template_description_language|Template Description Language (TDL)]]
- Deployable XML
- Image Warehouse Admin Guide
- Using Audrey with Conductor for post-boot config
- Upgrading Aeolus - Step-by-step upgrade instructions
- LDAP Support
- Command Line Interface commands
- Known limitations
The Use It guide explains how to configure Aeolus for Amazon EC2. To configure Aeolus for additional providers, follow these instructions:
- Common Error Messages - Common errors and how to fix them
This section is for people who’d like to contribute to the Aeolus project, or who simply want to get a peek behind the scenes.
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Developer Information - Resources for developers to get them up and running quickly.
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Developers communicate through the aeolus-devel mailing list
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Implementing New Providers - So you want to add support for a new cloud provider?
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Manual Aeolus installation on CentOS, Fedora, and others
- *** How to manually install latest Aeolus components together on CentOS, Fedora, and more.
h2.**Aeolus Components*
Aeolus is composed of many moving parts which communicate through carefully controlled APIs.
- List of log files
- Development Setup - quickly build and install components from source.
- In Development - Learn about planned and future work.
Conductor provides the web-based user interface that allow users to manage Aeolus.
- Conductor_API
- Roles and Permissions - Roles and Permissions system
- Internationalization - How to write code that can be translated into other languages
- Rails3 Upgrade
- Catalogs
- Renaming All the Components
- Upstream and Product Name Cheatsheet
- Instance and provider states
- Image Management Engine
- Cloud State
- Provider Selection Algorithms
- Auto Scaling - Initial thoughts on instrumentation requirements and implementation of automated instance scaling.
- Catalogs
- Deployables - draft
- Deployments - draft
- Instances - draft
- Pool Families - mapping of provider accounts needs to be revised
- Pools
- Provider Types - draft
- Providers
- Provider Accounts
- Realms - Front End - draft
- Realms - Provider
- Detailed architecture of the Conductor UI
- Conductor UI Style Guide (_work-in-progress_)
- Mustache templates
- List of UI Annoyances - We are collecting UI inconsistencies and annoyances here to tackle
- Forms - Basic developer guide
- Image Build/Push - workflows, concepts
- blog.aeolusproject.org playbook
- Etherpad playbook for etherpad-aeolusproject.rhcloud.com
Deltacloud is an independent open-source project that provides an abstraction layer in front of supported cloud APIs. This abstraction is what allows Conductor to easily manage multiple cloud providers.
Deltacloud utilizes a RESTful API for communication.
- aeolus-umbrella:Event_Format
- aeolus-umbrella:Event_Definitions
- aeolus-umbrella:Event_Attributes
- Feature_1_0_Syslog_Event_Documentation
- Syslog_Libraries
- Using the RHEV-M API - How to find RHEV data centers and image templates using the API
- document:“Aeolus/Katello User Stories”
- Condor Removal - The hows and whys of our switch away from Condor for scheduling
- OAuth as used in Aeolus between components
- Image Models - Images, ImageBuilds, TargetImages, and ProviderImages, oh my
- ICICLE
- RPM diff between master and product - rpms currently used in master but not available yet in product
- Debugging Conductor (production)
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General Development Process - What is the general flow of development to keep things sane (and branches next/master in a reasonable state)
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Release Checklist - Checklist of tasks done for each release
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Code Repository and Commits - Ready to contribute? Learn about our access and commit policies.
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Testing Holy Grail - Pragmatic look at testing in our app (ported from old wiki)
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Continuous Integration Testing - We are currently using Travis CI. We also evaluated CloudBees and OpenShift.
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In Development - Learn about planned and future work.
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- Estimated next release dates for all Aeolus projects
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Documentation Plan - Planning for user documentation expansion
- Presentations about Aeolus
- Upcoming Topics
- Git Inside (not presented yet)
- Plugins In Use - Info about plugins we currently have set up
- Plugins Of Interest - Plugins we may want to think about using
- Public Redmine - Options for a publicly facing Redmine (COMPLETE)
- Redmine Bugzilla Integration
- Redmine Performance - it’s annoyingly slow
- Publicity Cabal - Notes from the regular Publicity Cabals
- Release Cabal - Notes from the regular Release Cabals
- Website Cabal - I bet you can figure it out
Aeolus developer conference November 5-9, 2012 (over)
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