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 GettingStarted: http://wiki.openstack.org/Heat/GettingStartedUsingDevstack

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)