Welcome to Ganeti’s documentation!
This page is the starting point for browsing the Ganeti
documentation. Below, the corpus of Ganeti documentation is grouped by
topic.
A few quick references:
- Glossary: Provides explanations of basic Ganeti terminology.
- News file: Lists changes between Ganeti versions.
- Search Page: Allows you to search for key terms across Ganeti documentation.
Installing Ganeti
Use the following resources to install and/or upgrade Ganeti:
Using Ganeti
The following resources provide guidance on how to use Ganeti:
- Ganeti administrator’s guide: Information about how to manage a Ganeti cluster after it is installed (including management of nodes and instances, and information about Ganeti’s tools and monitoring agent).
- Ganeti walk-through: An example-oriented guide to Ganeti.
- Man pages: Descriptions of the various tools that are part of Ganeti.
- Security in Ganeti: A description of the security model underlying a Ganeti cluster.
- Ganeti customisation using hooks: Information on hooking scripts, which extend Ganeti functionalities by automatically activating when certain events occur.
- Ganeti automatic instance allocation: Description of the API for external tools, which can allocate instances either manually or automatically.
- Ganeti remote API: Description of the Ganeti remote API, which allows programmatic access to most of the functionalities of Ganeti.
- OVF converter: Description of a tool that provides compatibility with the standard OVF virtual machine interchange format.
- Virtual cluster support: Explanation of how to use virtual cluster support, which is utilized mainly for testing reasons.
Some features are explicitly targeted for large Ganeti installations,
in which multiple clusters are present:
Developing Ganeti
There are a few documents particularly useful for developers who want
to modify Ganeti:
- Ganeti locking: Describes Ganeti’s locking strategy and lock order dependencies.
- Developer notes: Details build dependencies and other useful development-related information.
Implemented designs
Before actual implementation, all Ganeti features are described in a
design document. Designs fall into two categories: released versions
and draft versions (which are either incomplete or not implemented).