# Apache CloudStack

Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large
networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used
by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many
companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, or as part of a
hybrid cloud solution.

CloudStack is a turnkey solution that includes the entire "stack" of features
most organizations want with an IaaS cloud: compute orchestration,
Network-as-a-Service, user and account management, a full and open native API,
resource accounting, and a first-class User Interface (UI).

CloudStack currently supports the most popular hypervisors:
VMware, KVM, XenServer, Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) and Hyper-V.

Users can manage their cloud with an easy to use Web interface, command line
tools, and/or a full-featured RESTful API. In addition, CloudStack provides an
API that's compatible with AWS EC2 and S3 for organizations that wish to deploy
hybrid clouds.

For more information on Apache CloudStack, please visit:
http://cloudstack.apache.org

## Who Uses CloudStack?

There are more than 150 known organisations using Apache CloudStack (or a
commercial distribution of CloudStack). Our users include many major service
providers running CloudStack to offer public cloud services, product vendors who
incorporate or integrate with Cloudstack in their own products, organisations
who have used Cloudstack to build their own private clouds, and systems
integrators that offer CloudStack related services.

For case studies highlighting successful deployments of Apache CloudStack, please
visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Case+Studies

For the up-to-date list of current users, please visit:
http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html

If you are using CloudStack in your organisation and your company isn't listed
above, please complete our brief adoption survey. We're happy to keep your
company name anonymous if you require.

CloudStack survey page: http://cloudstack.apache.org/survey.html

## License

Please see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file included in the root directory of the source tree.

## Downloading

You can download released versions from: http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html

## Building

Please see the [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md) file included in the root directory of the source tree.

## Tooling

Please see the [README.tools.md](README.tools.md) file included in the root directory of the source tree.

## Documentation

Project wiki:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Home

Getting started documentation:
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/master

Installation documentation:
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-installation

Administration documentation:
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-administration

Latest release notes:
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-notes

Design documents:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Design

API documentation:
http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api

## Getting Involved and Contributing

Interested in helping out with Apache CloudStack? Great! We welcome
participation from anybody willing to work The Apache Way and make a
contribution. Note that you do not have to be a developer in order to contribute
to Apache CloudStack. We need folks to help with documentation, translation,
promotion etc.

If you're interested in learning more or participating in the Apache CloudStack
project, the mailing lists are the best way to do that. While the project has
several communications channels, the mailing lists are the most active and the
official channels for making decisions about the project itself.

Mailing lists:
http://cloudstack.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

IRC, join us on irc.freenode.net on:
- `#cloudstack`: General Apache CloudStack conversation and end user support
- `#cloudstack-dev`: Development discussions
- `#cloudstack-meeting`: Weekly and ad-hoc meeting room for the CloudStack community

Bug reporting:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK

Developer resources:
http://cloudstack.apache.org/developers.html

For more details please see our contributing page:
http://cloudstack.apache.org/contribute.html

## News and Events

Blog:
https://blogs.apache.org/cloudstack

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/cloudstack

Planet CloudStack:
http://planet.apache.org/cloudstack

Events and meetup:
http://lanyrd.com/topics/apache-cloudstack

## Reporting Security Vulnerabilities

If you've found an issue that you believe is a security vulnerability in a
released version of CloudStack, please report it to
`security@cloudstack.apache.org` with details about the vulnerability, how it
might be exploited, and any additional information that might be useful.

For more details, please visit: http://cloudstack.apache.org/security.html