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Welcome
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NodeFabric Host Image is a modular VM (or bare-metal) image that delivers hyperconverged MariaDB-Galera database and Ceph storage solution for highly available, self-healing and load-balanced cloud services.

Based on stable and supported RedHat Enterprise Linux or CentOS operating system - it provides highly available data backend layer for self-healing and load-balanced cloud services. 

Docker, Consul and HAProxy are used internally for coordinating and maintaining included data storage services. NodeFabric Host Image can run on any virtual or physical infrastructure: Amazon EC2 cloud, Openstack and VMware private clouds or directly on bare metal. 

**Features include:**

- prebuilt NodeFabric Host Image and optional remote cluster auto-join service
- zero-­configuration data backend fabric deployment ­- just "Boot--and­-Go"
- self-contained and runs everywhere - AWS, Openstack, VMWare, KVM, bare-metal etc.
- very low infrastructure capabilities requirements for clustering -- it does not require multicast networking or node fencing
- clustered by design
- built-in service discovery and health monitoring

**Example use cases:**

- hyperconverged solution stack (Docker + database + shared FS + load-balancer)
- highly available turnkey database cluster
- virtual SAN with distributed filesystem support

More information about supported NodeFabric product can be found here:
http://opennodecloud.com/products/nodefabric.html


User Guide
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   :maxdepth: 1

   changelog
   guide/intro

License
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NodeFabric is released under open-source Apache v2 license.