OpenStack Contributor Portal - Welcome and How to Get Started

Welcome to the OpenStack Community

Welcome to the OpenStack Contributor Community! We're glad you're here. If you know how you want to contribute, get started below. If you need some advice, we're here to help!

Select the way you want to contribute...

User Groups

Mentoring

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CLIs

Compute

Containers

Frameworks for lifecycle management

Monitoring services

Swift add-ons

Hardware Lifecycle

NFV

Packaging recipes for popular frameworks

Resource optimization

SDKs

Billing / Business Logic

Storage

Networking

Testing / Benchmark

Shared Services

Orchestration

Workload Provisioning

Application Lifecycle

Web frontends

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CLIs

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Once you select the project you are interested in contributing to, you will see an in depth guide to contributing. The first step is as easy as that! Don't see the project you are interested in? Select another project group

Openstackclient

Command-line interface for all OpenStack services

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Compute

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Containers

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Kuryr

OpenStack Networking integration for containers

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Frameworks for lifecycle management

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Kolla-ansible

Deploys OpenStack in containers using Ansible

Openstack-charms

Deploys OpenStack in containers using Charms and Juju

Openstack-ansible

Ansible playbooks to deploy OpenStack

Openstack-helm

Deploys OpenStack in containers using Helm

Bifrost

Ansible playbooks using ironic

Kayobe

Deployment of containerised OpenStack to bare metal

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Monitoring services

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Ceilometer

Metering & Data Collection Service

Venus

Log Management

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Swift add-ons

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Storlets

Computable object storage

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Hardware Lifecycle

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Ironic

Bare Metal Provisioning Service

Cyborg

Lifecycle management of accelerators

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NFV

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Tacker

NFV Orchestration

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Packaging recipes for popular frameworks

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Puppet-openstack

Puppet modules to deploy OpenStack

LOCI

Lightweight OCI containers

Kolla

Production-ready OpenStack containers

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Resource optimization

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Vitrage

Root Cause Analysis service

Watcher

Optimization Service

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SDKs

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Openstacksdk

Official Python SDK for OpenStack APIs

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Billing / Business Logic

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Cloudkitty

Billing and chargebacks

Adjutant

Operations processes automation

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Storage

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Networking

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Testing / Benchmark

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Rally

Benchmarking tool

Tempest

The OpenStack Integration Test Suite

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Shared Services

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Orchestration

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Resource reservation service

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Workload Provisioning

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Trove

Database as a Service

Magnum

Container Orchestration Engine Provisioning

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Application Lifecycle

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Freezer

Backup and Restore

Masakari

Instances High Availability Service

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Web frontends

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Horizon

Dashboard

Skyline

Next generation dashboard

Select an Event Type

OpenStack Summit

Biannual, global community events for execs, users and developers of open infrastructure.

OpenStack Days

Annual, regional events featuring community leadership, local ecosystem and users.

Project Teams Gathering

Biannual working sessions for project teams to plan and collaborate the next software release.

OpenDev

Annual cross-community event with visionary keynotes and collaborative working sessions.

Plug into the vibrant user community:

User Committee

The User Committee is elected by the community and meets weekly in IRC and via their mailing list.

OpenStack User Survey

This survey provides users an opportunity to influence the community and software direction.

Resources for users:

API Guide

Sample Configurations

SuperUser Magazine

Plug into the vibrant operators community:

Operator’s Mailing List

Join the conversation for those who are currently running OpenStack infrastructure.

OpenStack Special Interest Groups

SIGs are teams that collaborate around common interests, whether it’s sharing knowledge or advocating for features upstream.

OpenStack User Survey

This survey provides users an opportunity to influence the community and software direction.

Resources for operators:

Operators Mailing List

The Quick Links

Contributor Resources

How can I get more involved?

OpenStack is a large community, and it can seem overwhelming when you don't know where to start. The best way to approach it is to get involved with a specific project, working group or local meetup.

Areas where help is most needed Tutorials & Upstream Institute Find a local user group Attend an event

Don't worry! We're here to help.

We want you to have a great experience. Open Infrastructure Foundation staff and volunteer ambassadors around the world are here to help you get plugged in and make an impact.

Open Infrastructure Foundation Community Managers

Ildiko Vancsa
Washington, United States

Kendall Nelson
MN, United States

Jimmy McArthur
TX, United States

Horace Li
Shanghai, China

Global OpenStack Ambassadors

Jaesuk Ahn
Seoul, South Korea

Sajid Akhtar
Karnataka, India

@ilyaalekseyev

Ilya Alekseyev
Berlin, Germany

Christian Berendt
Mühlacker, Georgia

Andy Botting
Victoria, Australia

Marcelo Dieder
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Erwan Gallen
Bretagne, France

Márton Kiss
Biatorbagy, Hungary

Akihiro Hasegawa
tokyo, Japan

Akira Yoshiiyama
Kanagawa, Japan

How to communicate

Thousands of OpenStack community members around the world collaborate on a daily basis via mailing lists and IRC channels. Once you get involved in a specific project or working group, there are often specialized meetings and communication channels. Subscribe to the OpenStack social media channels and sign up to receive email communications from the Foundation to get plugged into the largest information streams.

IRC channels (on OFTC)

How to set up IRC #openstack (usage questions)#openstack-dev (development questions)#opendev (project infrastructure)List of IRC meetings and channel logs

Mailing lists

OpenStack Discussion list List of all available mailing-lists

Other tools

Wiki Etherpad Ethercalc Conference call bridge

Info, News, and Blogs

OpenStack Blog Planet OpenStack (blog aggregator)Superuser Magazine

Social Channels

Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Channel

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