You may find more specific information for your particular issues at one or more of these:
- Nectar Research Cloud User Forum: an open forum anybody can contribute to, share experiences or seek Q&A's.
- OpenStack
- API Reference basics for authenticating and using the Compute and Image APIs
- API Quick Start guide to using the OpenStack APIs
- OpenStack Clients offical and developing commandline clients
- OpenStack SDKs a range of language toolkits to interface with the OpenStack API
- Wiki per sub-project links to install instructions, developer documentation, code (github) & more
- CSS Corps' OpenStack (Essex version) Beginners Guide on Ubuntu Precise (PDF)
- Mailing Lists Developer & Community Lists (you will need to have or create a launchpad account)
- Launchpad project homes
OpenStack,
Nova,
Swift,
Glance,
Keystone,
Dashboard,
Quantum,
Cinder - Launchpad Questions & Answers forum at each sub-project,
Nova,
Swift,
Glance,
Keystone,
Dashboard,
Quantum,
Cinder - Blog (a collection of thoughts from the developers and other key players of the OpenStack projects)
- IRC at irc://freenode a good option for asking questions, alternate web-browser version, logs are kept here
- Google Groups OpenStack Australia
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Documentation, AWS shares many features with OpenStack
- Software or Services to test out your own cloud!
- trystack.org hardware freely available to test Openstack applications
- devstack.org a script to install the Openstack development environment
- Swift All In One, setup a single VM that emulates a 4 node swift cluster