Hi Alex, You'll also find lots of great info on http://www.shapeblue.com/blog/
If you feel you would benefit from some training take a look at http://www.shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/ And of course, don't forget the next CloudStack Collaboration Conference in November, this time it's in Amsterdam http://www.cloudstackcollab.org/ Regards Geoff Higginbottom D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Hitchins [mailto:cloudst...@alexhitchins.com] Sent: 29 August 2013 16:56 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Starting with Cloudstack - Questions Thanks for the link, looks to be exactly what I'm after. Lot's to read up on. *Alexander Hitchins* ------------------------- e: a...@alexhitchins.com w: alexhitchins.com m: 07788 423 969 On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Tracy Phillips <tracp...@mantoso.com>wrote: > 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 > > > This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales. ShapeBlue Services India LLP is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue is a registered trademark.