Horizon is a Django-based project aimed at providing a complete OpenStack
Dashboard along with an extensible framework for building new dashboards
from reusable components. The openstack_dashboard module is a reference
implementation of a Django site that uses the horizon app to provide
web-based interactions with the various OpenStack projects.
For release management:
For blueprints and feature specifications:
For issue tracking:
For local development, first create a virtualenv for the project.
In the tools directory there is a script to create one for you:
$ python tools/install_venv.py
Alternatively, the run_tests.sh script will also install the environment
for you and then run the full test suite to verify everything is installed
and functioning correctly.
Now that the virtualenv is created, you need to configure your local
environment. To do this, create a local_settings.py file in the
openstack_dashboard/local/ directory. There is a
local_settings.py.example file there that may be used as a template.
If all is well you should able to run the development server locally:
$ tools/with_venv.sh ./manage.py runserver
or, as a shortcut:
$ ./run_tests.sh --runserver
The recommended tool for installing and configuring the core OpenStack components is Devstack. Refer to their documentation for getting Nova, Keystone, Glance, etc. up and running.
Note
The minimum required set of OpenStack services running includes the following:
- Nova (compute, api, scheduler, network, and volume services)
- Glance
- Keystone
Optional support is provided for Swift.
For development, start with the getting started instructions above. Once you have a working virtualenv and all the necessary packages, read on.
If dependencies are added to either horizon or openstack_dashboard,
they should be added to requirements.txt.
The run_tests.sh script invokes tests and analyses on both of these
components in its process, and it is what Jenkins uses to verify the
stability of the project. If run before an environment is set up, it will
ask if you wish to install one.
To run the unit tests:
$ ./run_tests.sh
This documentation is written by contributors, for contributors.
The source is maintained in the doc/source directory using
reStructuredText and built by Sphinx
Building Automatically:
$ ./run_tests.sh --docs
Building Manually:
$ tools/with_venv.sh sphinx-build doc/source doc/build/html
Results are in the doc/build/html directory