The Apache CloudStack project provides two kinds of documentation. Manuals or guides that cover a particular subject (e.g. installation) and ephemoral documention via the CloudStack wiki.

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Guides and Manuals

Release Notes

Latest release notes for Apache CloudStack giving updates on the latest features and changes from previous versions.



CloudStack Release Notes for Version 4.01
Installation Guide

Covers the basics of installing CloudStack including pre-requisities, management server overview, provisioning and all the considerations for bring an Apache CloudStack cloud online. A good place for new users to start.

Latest Online Guide (and downloadable versions)

Administrator's Guide

Covers all areas of Apache CloudStack inlcuding tuning CloudStack, Troubleshooting via Event Logs and other CloudStack Management Resources.

CloudStack Administrators Guide
API Developer's Guide

Complete documentation of the CloudStack RESTful API guide for advanced instrumentation and interaction without using the GUI including documentation of the Amazon EC2 Compatibility feautres.

CloudStack API Developer's Guide

Wiki Documentation

The CloudStack wiki is a collection of living documents edited by users and developers of CloudStack. Therefore documentation the wiki is sometimes the most current or can be out of date. Please reference the timestamp date at the top of the page to evaluate the freshness of the document.

For Example see this at the top of the page which shows the author and the last editor as well as linking to the changes.

Added by Alex Huang, last edited by Alex Huang on Dec 21, 2012  (view change)

Non-English Documentation


We currently are working to translate CloudStack via Transifex.