Introduction

CloudI is an open-source integration cloud that can be deployed publicly or privately. It supports the development of services that can be created in many different programming languages and provides scalability and fault-tolerance.

This tutorial should help you understand the design decisions and implementation steps needed to use CloudI for your own projects. A small real-world application is used for illustration and the full source code for the application is located here in case you want to look at the complete implementation.

Documentation Format

The tutorial uses version 1.3.1 of the Sphinx Documentation Generator (see http://sphinx-doc.org/) which uses an enhanced markdown format. Sphinx supports a variety of output formats that can be generated using the included Makefile.

Common Operations

When the base tutorial documentation is modified the following steps should be performed:

1. make html
2. make singlehtml

The output for these commands is stored in the _build directory.