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Overview

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History

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Kamaki was created on 2011 by the Synnefo (http://www.synnefo.org) development

team of the *Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET)*, initially as an

internal project and later as a multipurpose tool for all users.

Synnefo is an IaaS system which implements and extents OpenStack. Synnefo has

been deployed in many environments to cover multiple needs. The most notable

deployment is probably the GRNET's

`~okeanos <http://okeanos.grnet.gr>`_ IaaS service, running in GRNET data

centers, is used to offer cloud services to the Greek Research and Academic

Community.

Kamaki was originally conceived as a handy tool for the developers of *Synnefo*

and the administrators of *Okeanos*. The initial purpose of kamaki was to

provide an easy to use command line client for accessing the various ReST APIs

of Synnefo.

Kamaki has been designed to act as a command line client as well as a python

library for client developers. It is widely used in various synnefo and okeanos

components. Third parties are also encouraged to use the kamaki library for

developing their own python-based cloud-client applications.

As Synnefo became a full, scalable and stable cloud solution, kamaki also

evolved to an intuitive, multipurpose tool, available to a wider user base.

For example, it is used as the main Pithos+ client at Linux and other Unix-like

environments. It can be easily set up in all popular platforms, including

recent Linux, OS X and Windows releases.

Who uses *kamaki*?

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Kamaki is targeted to new and advanced users who need an intuitive managerial console tool to manage a local or remote synnefo cloud installation, without

excluding users who need to use just parts of the cloud system (e.g. only

Pihtos+ storage service or only Image services)

*kamaki* is currently used

* internally by the Synnefo development team to test the synnefo software,

* by the deployment team which operates the GRNET ~okeanos service

* as the main Pithos+ client at Linux and other Unix-like environments

* by third party Synnefo deploys who need to test and debug their cloud setup

* as an API library for other components in the Synnefo universe.

Contributing and helping out

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The *kamaki* development team values your help and depends on community feedback for feature evolution. Any contributions and bug reports will be

highly appreciated.

Community & Support

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For any problems you may bump into while using *kamaki* or for help from the development team please contact us at::

* Users list: synnefo@googlegroups.com

* Developers list: synnefo-devel@googlegroups.com

Bug reports and feedback are also highly appreciated.