Welcome to Cinder’s developer documentation!

Cinder is an OpenStack project to provide “block storage as a service”.

• Component based architecture: Quickly add new behaviors
• Highly available: Scale to very serious workloads
• Fault-Tolerant: Isolated processes avoid cascading failures
• Recoverable: Failures should be easy to diagnose, debug, and rectify
• Open Standards: Be a reference implementation for a community-driven api

This documentation is generated by the Sphinx toolkit and lives in the source tree. Additional draft and project documentation on Cinder and other components of OpenStack can be found on the OpenStack wiki. Cloud administrators, refer to docs.openstack.org.

Developer Docs

• Developer Guide

API Extensions

Go to http://api.openstack.org for information about Cinder API extensions.

Outstanding Documentation Tasks

• devref/volume.rst, line 21

  rework after iSCSI merge (see ‘Old Docs’) (todd or vish)

• devref/fakes.rst, line 21

  document general info about fakes

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page