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# Foxnut Overview
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Foxnut is a service to manage infrastructure under OpenStack, which including
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datacenter, rack, network devices, servers, interfaces, disks, etc. devices,
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Foxnut provides an OpenStack-native REST API and will contain comand line tool
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and web-based visualization interface.
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# Why Foxnut, Why us
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As a cloud infrastructure software, OpenStack has hidden the complexity of
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hardwares for end users. But to cloud operators, they have to face different
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hardwares under OpenStack, such as: racks, servers, interfaces, fibers, etc.
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As a DevOps team of OpenStack service provider, we have deliverd more than
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one hundred OpenStack clusters for users, the preparatory work is repeated and
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complicated, it takes lots of time on checking the correctness of links and
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location of servers, when complexity grow exponentially with the grow of clusters
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scale and availability.
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Foxnut is aim to manage these hardware efficiently, it's designed to collect
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hardware information and organize them in visualization, operators can choose
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different OpenStack architecture and foxnut will generate automatically rack view
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and networking connections view. It also will display hardwares status
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in real-time. With foxnut's help, operators could install servers into a rack and
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cable the server quickly and easily.
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## Getting Started
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If you'd like to run from the master branch, you can clone the git repo:
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git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/foxnut
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* Free software: Apache license
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* Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/foxnut
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* Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/foxnut
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* Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/foxnut
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## License
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Apache License Version 2.0 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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