heat/README.rst

HEAT

Heat is a service to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications using templates, through both an OpenStack-native ReST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API.

Why heat? It makes the clouds rise and keeps them there.

Getting Started

If you'd like to run from the master branch, you can clone the git repo:

git clone git@github.com:openstack/heat.git

• Wiki: http://wiki.openstack.org/Heat
• Developer docs: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat

Python client

https://github.com/openstack/python-heatclient

References

• http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/APIReference/API_CreateStack.html
• http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/create-stack.html
• http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-template-resource-type-ref.html
• http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=tosca

We have integration with

• https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient (instance)
• https://github.com/openstack/python-keystoneclient (auth)
• https://github.com/openstack/python-swiftclient (s3)
• https://github.com/openstack/python-quantumclient (networking)