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Kolla Overview
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The Kolla project is a member of the OpenStack `Big Tent
Governance <http://governance.openstack.org/reference/projects/index.html>`__.

Kolla's mission statement is:

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    To provide production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating
    OpenStack clouds.

Kolla provides `Docker <http://docker.com/>`__ containers,
`Ansible <http://ansible.com/>`__ playbooks to deploy OpenStack on baremetal
or virtual machine, and Kubernetes templates to deploy OpenStack on Kubernetes
to meet Kolla's mission.

Kolla has out of the box defaults for a working basic deployment, and also
implements complete customization. This model permits operators with minimal
experience to deploy OpenStack quickly and as the operator's experience grows
modify the OpenStack configuration to suit the operator's exact requirements.

Getting Started
===============

Learn about Kolla by reading the documentation online
`docs.openstack.org <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/kolla/>`__.

Get started by reading the `Developer
Quickstart <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/kolla/quickstart.html>`__.

The Kolla Repository
====================

The Kolla repository is one of three deliverables of the OpenStack Kolla
project.  The three deliverables that make up the Kolla project are:

===============   =====================================================
Deliverable       Repository
===============   =====================================================
kolla             https://git.openstack.org/openstack/kolla
kolla-ansible     https://git.openstack.org/openstack/kolla-ansible
kolla-kubernetes  https://git.openstack.org/openstack/kolla-kubernetes
===============   =====================================================

The `Docker images <https://docs.docker.com/engine/tutorials/dockerimages/>`__
are built by the Kolla project maintainers. A detailed process for
contributing to the images can be found in the `image building
guide <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/kolla/image-building.html>`__.

The Kolla developers build images in the `kolla` namespace for every tagged
release.

You can view the available images on `Docker Hub
<https://hub.docker.com/u/kolla/>`__ or with the Docker CLI::

    $ sudo docker search kolla

OpenStack services
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Kolla provides images to deploy the following OpenStack projects:

- `Aodh <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/aodh/>`__
- `Barbican <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/barbican/>`__
- `Bifrost <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/bifrost/>`__
- `Ceilometer <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ceilometer/>`__
- `Cinder <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/cinder/>`__
- `CloudKitty <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/cloudkitty/>`__
- `Congress <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/congress/>`__
- `Designate <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/designate/>`__
- `Freezer <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Freezer-docs>`__
- `Glance <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/>`__
- `Gnocchi <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/gnocchi/>`__
- `Heat <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/>`__
- `Horizon <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/horizon/>`__
- `Ironic <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/>`__
- `Karbor <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/karbor/>`__
- `Keystone <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/keystone/>`__
- `Kuryr <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/kuryr/>`__
- `Magnum <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/magnum/>`__
- `Manila <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/manila/>`__
- `Mistral <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/mistral/>`__
- `Murano <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/murano/>`__
- `Neutron <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/neutron/>`__
- `Nova <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/>`__
- `Panko <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/panko/>`__
- `Rally <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/rally/>`__
- `Sahara <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/sahara/>`__
- `Searchlight <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/searchlight/>`__
- `Senlin <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/senlin/>`__
- `Solum <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/solum/>`__
- `Swift <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/>`__
- `Tacker <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tacker/>`__
- `Tempest <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tempest/>`__
- `Trove <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/trove/>`__
- `Vmtp <http://vmtp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`__
- `Watcher <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/watcher/>`__
- `Zaqar <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/zaqar/>`__

Infrastructure components
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Kolla provides images to deploy the following infrastructure components:

- `Ceph <http://ceph.com/>`__ implementation for Cinder, Glance and Nova
- `collectd <https://collectd.org>`__,
  `InfluxDB <https://influxdata.com/time-series-platform/influxdb/>`__, and
  `Grafana <http://grafana.org>`__ for performance monitoring.
- `Elasticsearch <https://www.elastic.co/de/products/elasticsearch>`__ and
   `Kibana <https://www.elastic.co/de/products/kibana>`__ to search, analyze,
   and visualize log messages.
- `HAProxy <http://www.haproxy.org/>`__ and
  `Keepalived <http://www.keepalived.org/>`__ for high availability of services
  and their endpoints.
- `Heka <http://hekad.readthedocs.org/>`__ A distributed and
  scalable logging system for OpenStack services.
- `MariaDB and Galera Cluster <https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/galera-cluster/>`__
  for highly available MySQL databases
- `MongoDB <https://www.mongodb.org/>`__ as a database back end for Ceilometer
  and Gnocchi
- `Open vSwitch <http://openvswitch.org/>`__ and Linuxbridge back ends for Neutron
- `RabbitMQ <https://www.rabbitmq.com/>`__ as a messaging back end for
  communication between services.

Directories
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-  ``contrib`` - Contains demos scenarios for Heat and Murano and a development
   environment for Vagrant.
-  ``doc`` - Contains documentation.
-  ``docker`` - Contains jinja2 templates for the docker build system.
-  ``etc`` - Contains a reference etc directory structure which requires
   configuration of a small number of configuration variables to achieve
   a working All-in-One (AIO) deployment.
-  ``tests`` - Contains functional testing tools.
-  ``tools`` - Contains tools for interacting with the kolla repository.
-  ``specs`` - Contains the Kolla communities key arguments about
   architectural shifts in the code base.

Getting Involved
================

Need a feature? Find a bug? Let us know! Contributions are much
appreciated and should follow the standard `Gerrit
workflow <http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html>`__.

-  We communicate using the #openstack-kolla irc channel.
-  File bugs, blueprints, track releases, etc on
   `Launchpad <https://launchpad.net/kolla>`__.
-  Attend weekly
   `meetings <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Kolla>`__.
-  Contribute `code <https://git.openstack.org/openstack/kolla>`__.

Contributors
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Check out who is `contributing
code <http://stackalytics.com/?module=kolla-group&metric=commits>`__ and
`contributing
reviews <http://stackalytics.com/?module=kolla-group&metric=marks>`__.