Cinder, the OpenStack Block Storage Service¶
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.
Installing Cinder¶
To get started installing Cinder for use, start with the following documentation.
Admin Docs¶
Administrators will find helpful information in the following links including a description of how Cinder works, manages storage and how to troubleshoot your Cinder installation.
Contributor/Developer Docs¶
The following links contained information for contributors and developers. There is information on setting up a development environment, a lit of our API information on how to add a driver and many other resources related to contributing to Cinder.
Command Line Interface Documentation¶
Information on the commands available through Cinder’s Command Line Interface (CLI) can be found in this section of documentation. Full documentation on the python-cinderclient is in the python-cinderclient repo.
Man Pages¶
Additional ‘man page’ style documentation for Cinder may be seen below.
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:
API Extensions¶
Go to http://api.openstack.org for information about Cinder API extensions.
Configuration Reference¶
The following links provide information on the many configuration options available for Cinder including a sample configuration file.
Indices and tables¶
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