Awesome Apache CloudStack

A curated list of bookmarks, projects, tutorials, videos and other cool resources from the CloudStack ecosystem.

Table of Contents

• Essentials
• Packages and Images
• Command Line Interface Clients
• Configuration Management Integrations
• Libraries
• Operational Extensions
• Public Cloud Providers
• Videos
• Articles, Tutorials, Blogs, etc.
• Development
• Community

Essentials

• Apache CloudStack
• CloudStack Installation Guide
• CloudStack API Reference

Packages and Templates

Installation Packages

• Install Packages from ShapeBlue
• Install Packages from PCextreme

Templates

• Pre-Built Instance Templates
• SystemVM Packer
• Instance Templates Packer by Schuberg Philis
• Instance Templates Packer by PCextreme

Command Line Interface Clients

• Apache Cloudmonkey (Python)
• cloudstack-cli (Ruby)
• cs (Python)
• go-cloudstack

Configuration Management Integrations

Ansible

• Ansible CloudStack Modules (built-in)
• Ansible CloudStack Guide
• Ansible Cloud Infra Role (Advanced Networking)

Terraform

• CloudStack Provider

Vagrant

• Vagrant Cloudstack Provider

Libraries

• cs (Python)
• go-cloudstack (Go)
• golang-cloudstack-library (Go)
• cloudstack PHP Client (PHP - ACS 4.10 compatible)
• cloudstack-php (PHP)
• cloudstack_client (Ruby)
• Apache libcloud (Python)
• Apache jclouds (Java)
• apache-cloudstack-java-client (Java)
• apache-cloudstack-javascript-client (JavaScript)
• .NET SDK for CloudStack
• vhd-util for manipulating Xen VHDs
• Cloudstack API for the Kotlin language (Kotlin)
• cloudstack.sh (minimal bash implementation)

Operational Extensions

Montitoring and Graphs

• CloudStack Nagios Monitoring by SWISS TXT
• collectd-cloudstack Plugin
• CloudStack Statistics into InfluxDB

RealHostIP replacement

• nip.io fork for realhostip compatible service
• powerdns-cloudstack-proxy-dns

Billing Solutions

• HostBill (commercial)
• Amysta (commercial)
• StratoSTACK
• Cyclops

Misc

• CloudStack Chaos Monkey
• Alternative CloudStack-UI by Bitworks Software, Ltd.

Public Cloud Providers

• Exoscale
• Ikoula
• Interoute
• LeaseWeb
• PCextreme

Videos

• Introduction to Apache CloudStack by David Nalley
• CloudOps Channel

Articles, Tutorials, Blogs, etc

• Wikipedia Article
• ShapeBlue Blog
• Remi Bergsma's blog
• shankerbalan.net

Development

Main

• GitHub
• Apache CloudStack Issue Tracker - GitHub
• Apache CloudStack Issue Tracker - Jira (retired)

Development Environment

• MonkeyBox - nested VM based CloudStack development

Continuous Integrations

• Trillian
• bubble-blueprint

Build with Docker

• RPM Builder
• DEB Builder
• SystemVM Builder

Community

• Mailing Lists
• IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/cloudstack
• Slack

Contributing

Found an awesome project, blog, video etc.? Send me a pull request!

Guidelines

• Please make an individual pull request for each suggestion
• Make sure the TravisCI tests pass on your pull request
• Use the following format for links: [Resource](URL)
• New categories or improvements to the existing categorization are welcome

License

Awesome CloudStack is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.