YellowDog Documentation

Welcome to YellowDog’s customer documentation page.

Here you’ll find links to useful information about your YellowDog products:

• Introductions and Overviews
• YellowDog for CGI
• Platform and Portal
• YellowDog Index

Introductions and Overviews

• YellowDog product release notes These monthly release notes summarise all the new features and bugfixes provided by YellowDog.

YellowDog for CGI

• Guide to the YellowDog User Interface (PDF) A short guide to using YellowDog for CGI from the web interface.
• Exporting from Modo (PDF) A detailed technical guide to using the YellowDog Modo plugin from the command line.
• Using YellowDog with Deadline (PDF) A simple guide to using Deadline Monitor to create and control additional YellowDog rendering instances. (This document replaces the previous Deadline Plugin Quick Start Guide)
• YellowDog for CGI API Detailed API information for YellowDog for CGI. Access to this API requires a login.
• API Guide (PDF) A guide to using the CGI API to perform common tasks.

YellowDog Platform and Portal

YellowDog Platform

• Implementation Guide (PDF) Explains how to use the YellowDog API to provision compute and run applications in the cloud. You will also need to refer to the relevant API document.
• YellowDog Scheduler Service (PDF) A conceptual and architectural introduction to the scheduler service.
• API documents Detailed API information for Java, Python and .NET.

YellowDog Portal

• Portal Help (WebHelp) Explains how to set up, use and troubleshoot provisioning and applications via the YellowDog Portal.
• Portal User Guide (PDF) As above, but in PDF format.

YellowDog Index

• YellowDog Index Help (WebHelp) Explains how to use the YellowDog Index to find the best source of compute for your requirements.
• Guide to the YellowDog Index (PDF) As above, but in PDF format.