Welcome to the Senlin developer documentation!

Senlin is a service to create and manage cluster of multiple cloud resources. Senlin provides an OpenStack-native ReST API and a AWS AutoScaling-compatible Query API is in plan.

What is the purpose of the project and vision for it?

Senlin provides a clustering solution for OpenStack cloud. A user can create clusters of node and associate policy to such a cluster.
The software interacts with other components of OpenStack so that clusters of resources exposed by those components can be created and operated.
The software complements Heat project each other so Senlin can create and manage clusters of Heat stacks while Heat can invoke Senlin APIs to orchestrate collections of homogeneous resources.
Senlin provides policies as plugins that can be used to specify how clusters operate. Example policies include creation policy, placement policy, deletion policy, load-balancing policy, scaling policy etc.
Senlin can interact with all other OpenStack components via profile plugins. Each profile type implementation enable Senlin to create resources provided by a corresponding OpenStack service.

This documentation offers information on how Senlin works and how to contribute to the project.

Getting Started

getting_started/index policies/index profiles/index glossary

Man Pages

man/index

Developers Documentation

architecture pluginguide

API Documentation

Senlin REST API Reference (OpenStack API Complete Reference - Clustering)

Operations Documentation

scale_deployment

Code Documentation

sourcecode/autoindex

Indices and tables

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