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Eucalyptus is open source software for building AWS-compatible private clouds.

This Eucalyptus wiki is a collection of technical documents for cloud users, cloud
administrators, code contributors and partners.
For the official Eucalyptus web site, visit eucalyptus.com.

Need Help?
Check out the user and administration documentation, or connect with Eucalyptus on IRC,
and the euca-users mailing list.

Resources
About Eucalyptus Eucalyptus is a set of web services, modeled after and compatible
with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Written mostly in Java, Eucalyptus integrates
components from over 100 open source projects, tested and packaged into a single easy-toinstall and easy-to-use product. Eucalyptus runs on virtualized infrastructure (Linux+KVM).
Acronym Eucalyptus is actually an acronym, which stands for "Elastic Utility Computing
Architecture, Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems".
Architecture You can see the design documents for Eucalyptus in our architecture
repository.
AWS Tools Eucalyptus is AWS Compatible. See the AWS tools we recommend, and how
to configure them for use with Eucalyptus, on our AWS Tools page.
Bugs You can file bugs on our Jira instance.
Code See the code for the latest Eucalyptus release. You can also see all of our projects
on Github.
Contribute If you'd like to contribute, please check out the Contributor Guidelines first.
We also have some more information on our Git setup especially focused on sending
documentation patches.
Documentation Reference all of our product documentation.
Feedback You can always ask questions on any of our Eucalyptus mailing lists.
Install To install Eucalyptus, try the one-line installer with Faststart. After install completes
(usually in less than 30 minutes) you can immediately begin using your private cloud platform
with the default account, user and password.
IRC You can find us on Freenode IRC on #eucalyptus
Mailing List Join one of the Eucalyptus mailing lists to keep up with latest developments
and join our users and developers in conversation.
Nightlies You can install nightly builds of the latest Eucalyptus development builds by
following these instructions.
People Lots of great people contribute to Eucalyptus. Meet some of them.

Questions You can ask questions on StackOverflow or Quora.

Videos You can see how Eucalyptus works on videos at YouTube.

For Cloud Users

Bundling Images - How to use euca-bundle-vol to "rebundle" modified VM instances

back into the Eucalyptus image catalog as a new EMI.

Instance Best Practices - Recommendations regarding best practices associated with

instance and image management.

Convert AMI to EMI - How to import an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) into
Eucalyptus as an EMI (Eucalyptus Machine Image).

Kexec Loader - How to use a specialized EKI and ERI to boot the EMI's own infilesystem kernel and ramdisk using GRUB.

Using PHP with Eucalyptus - How to use the Amazon AWS PHP SDK with
Eucalyptus.

Starter Images - Starter Images that can be accessed via emis.eucalyptus.com or

eustore.

Stackato Image - Information regarding status of getting Stackato image to work on

Eucalyptus.

Fog - Information regarding status of Fog working with Eucalyptus

Ansible - Using Ansible to orchestrate EC2 and Eucalyptus instances; deployment
and configuration management.

For Cloud Administrators

Network Troubleshooting FAQ - How to solve common VM networking problems.

Eutester and Nagios - How to setup and configure Eutester and Nagios to carry out a
simple test of cloud availablity.

Keepalived VIP on Cluster Controllers - How to install and configure keepalived to be

used as a shared IP for Node Controller gateways when using MANAGED mode and a
private network.

Eucalyptus Storage - High-level overview of storage in Eucalyptus including Walrus

and the Storage Controller and how they work. Also includes some best practices and
recommendations.

For Developers

Design Docs - Internal Eucalyptus design documentation.

Debugging Eucalyptus Java-language components - Advice on working with

Eucalyptus from an IDE.

Debugging Eucalyptus C-language components - Tools and advice to debug the

components of Eucalyptus written in C** Node Controller and Cluster Controller.

Image deployment and construction - Details of how disk images are deployed in the
system

Developer Guide (incomplete) - A work-in-progress guide to getting started on the

Eucalyptus code and architecture.