Zookeeper 是一个高性能的分布式应用协调服务框架. 它以一种简单接口的形式暴露了一系列的通用服务,比如命名，配置管理，同步和分组等。

因此你不必从一堆草稿中去实现他们。你可以使用现成的东西去实现一致性，分组管理，机器选择和已经存在的一些协议。同时你能够用它构建实现自己特定的需求。

接下来的文档描述了一些概念和过程，让你开始使用zookeeper,如果你有其他问题,可以咨询邮件列表或者直接找对应的说明文档。

• ZooKeeper Overview客户端开发者，管理员和贡献者需要学习 Overview文档。

  • Overview – a bird’s eye view of ZooKeeper, including design concepts and architecture
  • Getting Started – a tutorial-style guide for developers to install, run, and program to ZooKeeper
  • Release Notes– new developer and user facing features, improvements, and incompatibilities

• 开发者
  开发者如何使用ZooKeeper客户端API的文档如下：

  • API Docs – the technical reference to ZooKeeper Client APIs
  • Programmer’s Guide– a client application developer’s guide to ZooKeeper
  • ZooKeeper Java Example – a simple Zookeeper client appplication, written in Java
  • Barrier and Queue Tutorial – sample implementations of barriers and queues
  • ZooKeeper Recipes – higher level solutions to common problems in distributed applications

• **管理员 和 操作员 **ZooKeeper的管理员和操作工程师部署文档如下：

  • Administrator’s Guide – a guide for system administrators and anyone else who might deploy ZooKeeper
  • Quota Guide – a guide for system administrators on Quotas in ZooKeeper.
  • JMX – how to enable JMX in ZooKeeper
  • Hierarchical quorums
  • Observers – non-voting ensemble members that easily improve ZooKeeper’s scalability
  • Dynamic Reconfiguration – a guide on how to use dynamic reconfiguration in ZooKeeper

• 贡献者开发者向ZooKeeper开源项目共享代码文档如下：

  • ZooKeeper Internals – assorted topics on the inner workings of ZooKeeper

• 其他各种ZooKeeper文档

  • Wiki
  • FAQ