OpenStack Shared Filesystems (manila) documentation¶

What is Manila?¶

Manila is the OpenStack Shared Filesystems service for providing Shared Filesystems as a service. Some of the goals of Manila are to be/have:

• 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

For end users¶

As an end user of Manila, you’ll use Manila to create a remote file system with either tools or the API directly: python-manilaclient, or by directly using the REST API.

For operators¶

This section has details for deploying and maintaining Manila services.

For contributors¶

Contributions to Manila are welcome. There is a lot of background information that can help you get started. Please feel free to also ask any questions in the #openstack-manila IRC channel.