heat/README.rst

HEAT

This is the beginings of an OpenStack project that provides a programmable interface to orchestrate1 multiple cloud applications implementing well known standards such as CloudFormations and Tosca.

Currently we are focusing on CloudFormations but are watching the development of the Tosca specification.

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

Quick Start

If you'd like to run trunk, you can clone the git repo:

git clone git@github.com:heat-api/heat.git

Install Heat by running:

sudo python setup.py install

try: shell1:

heat-api

shell2:

sudo heat-engine

shell3:

heat create my_stack --template-url=https://raw.github.com/heat-api/heat/blob/master/templates/WordPress_Single_Instance.template

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

Related projects

• http://wiki.openstack.org/Donabe
• http://wiki.openstack.org/DatabaseAsAService (could be used to provide AWS::RDS::DBInstance)
• http://wiki.openstack.org/QueueService (could be used to provide AWS::SQS::Queue)