Hi Alexander, I think this will be a good place for you to start in the wiki.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Developers On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Alexander Hitchins < cloudst...@alexhitchins.com> wrote: > Hi everyone > > I’m new to Cloudstack and need some initial help and guidance. Greatly > appreciate if anybody is able to help me out. I'm signed up to the users > and dev mailing groups; apologies if this is the wrong group for this > subject. > > We’ve recently done a POC in our organisation on Cloudstack and are > thinking about adopting it in our organisation. > > I’m looking at how we’re going to support it going forward (and maybe make > some developments ourselves) and one of our options is to get some of our > internal developers up to speed. So, we’re interested in working with the > Cloudstack code. > > The first thing I’d like to establish is what technologies Cloudstack is > based on. I understand its written in java, but it would be great if I > could get an understanding of the sort of skills and experience required to > be able to work with the code (i.e. databases, frameworks etc). Also, an > idea of what other knowledge developers should have (I’d guess they need to > know about virtualisation, etc). Then I’ll know who in my team to get > involved. > > I’d also like to find out how to go about setting up a Cloudstack > development environment; if there are any good/easy ways to go about doing > this so we can take an initial look at the code & how it all hangs > together. > > Would anybody be able to point me in the right direction – is this > information published anywhere? > > Many thanks for you time! > *Alexander Hitchins* > ------------------------- > e: a...@alexhitchins.com > w: alexhitchins.com > m: 07788 423 969 >
