> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.xloud.tech/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Administrator Guides

> Guides for deploying, configuring, and maintaining Xloud cloud infrastructure.

Documentation for administrators to deploy, configure, and maintain Xloud cloud services.

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## Core Services

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  <Card title="Compute" icon="cpu" href="/services/compute/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Hypervisor hosts, schedulers, and compute resources
  </Card>

  <Card title="Block Storage" icon="hard-drive" href="/services/storage/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Storage backends, volume types, and storage tiers
  </Card>

  <Card title="Networking" icon="network" href="/services/networking/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Network agents, provider networks, and SDN configuration
  </Card>

  <Card title="Images" icon="disc" href="/services/images/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Image stores, metadata, and access controls
  </Card>

  <Card title="Orchestration" icon="workflow" href="/services/orchestration/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Heat stacks, templates, and autoscaling configuration
  </Card>

  <Card title="Dashboard" icon="gauge" href="/services/dashboard/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Customize and configure the Xloud Dashboard for your organization
  </Card>

  <Card title="Identity & Access" icon="fingerprint" href="/services/identity/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Domains, federation, LDAP integration, and policies
  </Card>

  <Card title="Object Storage" icon="box" href="/services/object-storage/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Object storage endpoints, buckets, and access policies
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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## Other Services

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  <Card title="Load Balancer" icon="combine" href="/services/load-balancer/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Load balancer backends and health monitors
  </Card>

  <Card title="DNS" icon="globe" href="/services/dns/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    DNS backends and zone transfers
  </Card>

  <Card title="Key Manager" icon="lock" href="/services/key-manager/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Encryption backends and key storage
  </Card>

  <Card title="Monitoring (XIMP)" icon="activity" href="/services/monitoring/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Metrics collection, alerting, and centralized logging
  </Card>

  <Card title="Software-Defined Storage" icon="layers" href="/services/sds/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Ceph clusters, storage pools, and replication policies
  </Card>

  <Card title="Disaster Recovery" icon="rotate-ccw" href="/services/disaster-recovery/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Cross-site replication and automated failover policies
  </Card>

  <Card title="Instance HA" icon="heart-pulse" href="/services/instance-ha/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Instance HA service for host failure detection
  </Card>

  <Card title="Kubernetes (K8SaaS)" icon="container" href="/services/kubernetes/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Kubernetes cluster templates, node groups, and quotas
  </Card>

  <Card title="Resource Optimizer" icon="trending-up" href="/services/optimization/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Workload balancing and resource optimization strategies
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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## Deployment & Operations

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  <Card title="XDeploy Platform" icon="play" href="/deployment" color="#197560">
    Deploy and configure Xloud using the XDeploy management platform
  </Card>

  <Card title="Operations & Lifecycle" icon="settings" href="/deployment/operations" color="#197560">
    Deploy, reconfigure, upgrade, and manage cluster services
  </Card>

  <Card title="Security Hardening" icon="shield-check" href="/security/hardening-guide" color="#197560">
    Harden your infrastructure with TLS, firewall rules, and audit logging
  </Card>

  <Card title="Backup & Recovery" icon="rotate-ccw" href="/services/disaster-recovery/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Configure backup strategies and disaster recovery
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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## Integrations

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  <Card title="Terraform" icon="code" href="/integrations/terraform" color="#197560">
    Provision and manage Xloud resources with Terraform
  </Card>

  <Card title="Ansible" icon="terminal" href="/integrations/ansible" color="#197560">
    Automate Xloud administration with Ansible
  </Card>

  <Card title="Prometheus" icon="activity" href="/integrations/prometheus" color="#197560">
    Scrape Xloud metrics into Prometheus
  </Card>

  <Card title="Grafana" icon="chart-bar" href="/integrations/grafana" color="#197560">
    Visualize Xloud infrastructure metrics in Grafana
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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## Resources

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  <Card title="Blogs" icon="file-text" href="https://blog.xloud.tech/" color="#197560">
    Architecture deep-dives, best practices, and platform updates
  </Card>

  <Card title="Contact Support" icon="headphones" href="mailto:support@xloud.tech" color="#197560">
    24/7/365 multilingual support from the Xloud team
  </Card>
</CardGroup>