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+==========================
+Install Guide Cookiecutter
+==========================
+
+Cookiecutter template for an Install Guide skeleton. See
+https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter for full information about
+cookiecutter.
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+Generate a Install Guide skeleton::
+
+    cookiecutter https://git.openstack.org/openstack/installguide-cookiecutter.git
+
+Answer the questions and add the created REPO/installguide directory
+to your repository REPO.
+
+Contribution
+------------
+
+This repo is part of the OpenStack docs team, see
+http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/ on how to contribute.
diff --git a/cookiecutter.json b/cookiecutter.json
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+{
+	"repo_name": "replace with name of repo",
+	"service": "replace with the name of the service like Networking or Compute",
+	"codename": "replace with the codename like neutron or nova"
+
+}
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/install-guide/source/conf.py b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/install-guide/source/conf.py
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+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its
+# containing dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+import os
+# import sys
+
+
+import openstackdocstheme
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+# -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+# needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+# TODO(ajaeger): enable PDF building, for example add 'rst2pdf.pdfbuilder'
+# extensions =
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+# templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix of source filenames.
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The encoding of source files.
+# source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = u'Installation Guide for {{service}} Service'
+bug_tag = u'install-guide'
+copyright = u'2016, OpenStack contributors'
+
+# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
+# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
+# built documents.
+#
+# The short X.Y version.
+version = '0.1'
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+release = '0.1'
+
+# A few variables have to be set for the log-a-bug feature.
+#   giturl: The location of conf.py on Git. Must be set manually.
+#   gitsha: The SHA checksum of the bug description. Automatically extracted from git log.
+#   bug_tag: Tag for categorizing the bug. Must be set manually.
+# These variables are passed to the logabug code via html_context.
+giturl = u'http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/{{codename}}/tree/install-guide/source'
+git_cmd = "/usr/bin/git log | head -n1 | cut -f2 -d' '"
+gitsha = os.popen(git_cmd).read().strip('\n')
+html_context = {"gitsha": gitsha, "bug_tag": bug_tag,
+                "giturl": giturl}
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+# language = None
+
+# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
+# non-false value, then it is used:
+# today = ''
+# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
+# today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+exclude_patterns = []
+
+# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all
+# documents.
+# default_role = None
+
+# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
+# add_function_parentheses = True
+
+# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description
+# unit titles (such as .. function::).
+# add_module_names = True
+
+# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the
+# output. They are ignored by default.
+# show_authors = False
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'sphinx'
+
+# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
+# modindex_common_prefix = []
+
+# If true, keep warnings as "system message" paragraphs in the built documents.
+# keep_warnings = False
+
+
+# -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+html_theme = 'openstackdocs'
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+# html_theme_options = {}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
+html_theme_path = [openstackdocstheme.get_html_theme_path()]
+
+# The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
+# "<project> v<release> documentation".
+# html_title = None
+
+# A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as html_title.
+# html_short_title = None
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
+# of the sidebar.
+# html_logo = None
+
+# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
+# docs.  This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
+# pixels large.
+# html_favicon = None
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+# html_static_path = []
+
+# Add any extra paths that contain custom files (such as robots.txt or
+# .htaccess) here, relative to this directory. These files are copied
+# directly to the root of the documentation.
+# html_extra_path = []
+
+# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
+# using the given strftime format.
+# So that we can enable "log-a-bug" links from each output HTML page, this
+# variable must be set to a format that includes year, month, day, hours and
+# minutes.
+html_last_updated_fmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'
+
+
+# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
+# typographically correct entities.
+# html_use_smartypants = True
+
+# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
+# html_sidebars = {}
+
+# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
+# template names.
+# html_additional_pages = {}
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+# html_domain_indices = True
+
+# If false, no index is generated.
+html_use_index = False
+
+# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
+# html_split_index = False
+
+# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
+html_show_sourcelink = False
+
+# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+# html_show_sphinx = True
+
+# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+# html_show_copyright = True
+
+# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
+# contain a <link> tag referring to it.  The value of this option must be the
+# base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
+# html_use_opensearch = ''
+
+# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
+# html_file_suffix = None
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'install-guide'
+
+# If true, publish source files
+html_copy_source = False
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output ---------------------------------------------
+
+latex_elements = {
+    # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+    # 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+
+    # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+    # 'pointsize': '10pt',
+
+    # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+    # 'preamble': '',
+}
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title,
+#  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
+latex_documents = [
+    ('index', 'InstallGuide.tex', u'Install Guide',
+     u'OpenStack contributors', 'manual'),
+]
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
+# the title page.
+# latex_logo = None
+
+# For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts,
+# not chapters.
+# latex_use_parts = False
+
+# If true, show page references after internal links.
+# latex_show_pagerefs = False
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+# latex_show_urls = False
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+# latex_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+# latex_domain_indices = True
+
+
+# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
+
+# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
+# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
+man_pages = [
+    ('index', 'installguide', u'Install Guide',
+     [u'OpenStack contributors'], 1)
+]
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+# man_show_urls = False
+
+
+# -- Options for Texinfo output -------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+#  dir menu entry, description, category)
+texinfo_documents = [
+    ('index', 'InstallGuide', u'Install Guide',
+     u'OpenStack contributors', 'InstallGuide',
+     'This guide shows OpenStack end users how to install '
+     'an OpenStack cloud.', 'Miscellaneous'),
+]
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+# texinfo_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+# texinfo_domain_indices = True
+
+# How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'.
+# texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote'
+
+# If true, do not generate a @detailmenu in the "Top" node's menu.
+# texinfo_no_detailmenu = False
+
+# -- Options for Internationalization output ------------------------------
+locale_dirs = ['locale/']
+
+# -- Options for PDF output --------------------------------------------------
+
+pdf_documents = [
+    ('index', u'InstallGuide', u'Install Guide',
+     u'OpenStack contributors')
+]
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/install-guide/source/get_started.rst b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/install-guide/source/get_started.rst
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+=========================
+{{service}} service overview
+=========================
+
+The {{service}} service provides...
+
+The {{service}} service consists of the following components:
+
+``{{codename}}-api`` service
+  Accepts and responds to end user compute API calls...
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/install-guide/source/index.rst b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/install-guide/source/index.rst
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+=====================
+{{service}} service
+=====================
+
+.. toctree::
+
+   get_started_database_service.rst
+   install.rst
+   verify.rst
+   next-steps.rst
+
+The {{service}} service ({{codename}}) provides...
+
+This chapter assumes a working setup of OpenStack following the base
+Installation Guide.
+
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/install-guide/source/install.rst b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/install-guide/source/install.rst
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+.. _install:
+
+Install and configure
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This section describes how to install and configure the
+{{service}} service, code-named {{codename}}, on the controller node.
+
+This section assumes that you already have a working OpenStack
+environment with at least the following components installed:
+Compute, Image Service, Identity.
+
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+Before you install and configure the {{service}} service, you must create a
+database, service credentials, and API endpoints.
+
+#. To create the database, complete these steps:
+
+   * Use the database access client to connect to the database
+     server as the ``root`` user:
+
+     .. code-block:: console
+
+        $ mysql -u root -p
+
+   * Create the ``{{codename}}`` database:
+
+     .. code-block:: console
+
+        CREATE DATABASE {{codename}};
+
+      * Grant proper access to the ``{{codename}}`` database:
+
+        .. code-block:: console
+
+           GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON {{codename}}.* TO '{{codename}}'@'localhost' \
+             IDENTIFIED BY '{{codename|upper}}_DBPASS';
+           GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON {{codename}}.* TO '{{codename}}'@'%' \
+             IDENTIFIED BY '{{codename|upper}}_DBPASS';
+
+        Replace ``{{codename|upper}}_DBPASS`` with a suitable password.
+
+     * Exit the database access client.
+
+#. Source the ``admin`` credentials to gain access to
+   admin-only CLI commands:
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      $ source admin-openrc.sh
+
+#. To create the service credentials, complete these steps:
+
+   * Create the ``{{codename}}`` user:
+
+     .. code-block:: console
+
+        $ openstack user create --domain default --password-prompt {{codename}}
+
+Install and configure components
+--------------------------------
+
+
+Finalize installation
+---------------------
+
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/install-guide/source/next-steps.rst b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/install-guide/source/next-steps.rst
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+.. _next-steps:
+
+Next steps
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Your OpenStack environment now includes the {{codename}} service.
+
+To add additional services, see
+docs.openstack.org/draft/install-guides/index.html .
+
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/install-guide/source/verify.rst b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/install-guide/source/verify.rst
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+.. _verify:
+
+Verify operation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Verify operation of the {{service}} service.