Welcome to Kolla’s documentation!

Kolla’s mission is to provide production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating OpenStack clouds.

Related Projects

This documentation is for the Kolla container images.

Kolla-ansible is a subproject of Kolla that deploys the Kolla container images using Ansible.

Kayobe is a subproject of Kolla that uses Kolla Ansible and Bifrost to deploy an OpenStack control plane to bare metal.

Site Notes

This documentation is continually updated and may not represent the state of the project at any specific prior release. To access documentation for a previous release of kolla, choose one of the OpenStack release names on the right of the title.

Administrator Guide

• Administrator Guide
  • Building Container Images
  • Kolla Images API

Contributor Guide

• Contributor Guide
  • So You Want to Contribute…
  • Adding a new image
  • Release notes
  • Running tests
  • Bug triage
  • PTL Guide
  • Release Management

Support Matrix

• Kolla Images Support Matrix
  • Supported base images
  • Support clause definitions
  • x86_64 images
  • aarch64 images
  • ppc64le images
  • Currently unbuildable images
  • Ceph versions in Kolla images