[cloud-guide] Fleshed out a bit more of the OpenStack outline

Jared Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org
Thu Sep 15 23:51:05 UTC 2011


commit 374446a97179c08977b16856aa8fd669339ffa5c
Author: Jared K. Smith <jsmith at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Thu Sep 15 19:39:20 2011 -0400

    Fleshed out a bit more of the OpenStack outline

 en-US/Openstack.xml |   15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/Openstack.xml b/en-US/Openstack.xml
index 6840449..7f8a2ff 100644
--- a/en-US/Openstack.xml
+++ b/en-US/Openstack.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,20 @@
 ]>
 <section id="sect-cloud-guide-Openstack">
         <title>Creating your own cloud with Openstack</title>
-	<para><application>Openstack</application>, licensed under Apache 2.0, provides technologies for creating open source clouds.</para>
+	<para><application>OpenStack</application>, licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, provides technologies for creating open source clouds.</para>
+	<para>OpenStack consists of several different pieces:</para>
+	<variablelist>
+		<varlistentry><term>Nova</term>
+			<listitem><para>Nova is the management stack and user interface to OpenStack.</para></listitem>
+		</varlistentry>
+		<varlistentry><term>Swift</term>
+			<listitem><para>Swift is an object storage mechanism for OpenStack</para></listitem>
+		</varlistentry>
+		<varlistentry><term>Glance</term>
+			<listitem><para>Glance is the image creation portion of OpenStack</para></listitem>
+		</varlistentry>
+	</variablelist>
+	<para>Let's explore the various pieces of OpenStack and how they interact.</para>
 	<section id="sect-cloud-guide-Openstack-Nova">
 		<title>Openstack Nova</title>
 		<para><application>Nova</application> is the primary operator in the Infrastructure as a Service, or IAAS, system which is used to host and manage clouds.</para>


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