I would encourage you to go through the architecture overview and videos available.
http://shapeblue.com/citrix/cloudstack-architecture-overview/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1K_8rvDhic part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSwisRfJVdM part 2 http://www.slideshare.net/cloudstack/cloudstack-architecture slides These are around an year old. But should definitely help you get started. -- Thanks, Rajani -----Original Message----- From: Malintha Adikari <malin...@wso2.com<mailto:malintha%20adikari%20%3cmalin...@wso2.com%3e>> Reply-to: <dev@cloudstack.apache.org> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: Engage cloudStack project Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 16:36:28 +0530 Hi, I am Malintha Adikari from Sri Lanka ,a fresh engineer who works in an open source software company and I want to engage cloudStack project. I am very interesting in cloud computing concepts but I have least hands-on experience. I am experience in Java and C development.I have checked out the source and go through the documentation ( some sections were difficult to understand for me). What should be my first steps ? Can I build and run the source code ? Could you please give me suggestions to get start Thank you,