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Introduction
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The OpenStack Orchestration service, a tool for orchestrating clouds,
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automatically configures and deploys resources in stacks. The deployments can
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be simple, such as deploying WordPress on Ubuntu with an SQL back end, or
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complex, such as starting a server group that auto scales by
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starting and stopping using real-time CPU loading information from the
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Telemetry service.
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Orchestration stacks are defined with templates, which are non-procedural
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documents. Templates describe tasks in terms of resources, parameters, inputs,
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constraints, and dependencies. When the Orchestration service was originally
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introduced, it worked with AWS CloudFormation templates, which are in the JSON
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format.
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The Orchestration service also runs Heat Orchestration Template (HOT)
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templates that are written in YAML. YAML is a terse notation that loosely
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follows structural conventions (colons, returns, indentation) that are similar
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to Python or Ruby. Therefore, it is easier to write, parse, grep, generate
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with tools, and maintain source-code management systems.
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Orchestration can be accessed through a CLI and RESTful queries.
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The Orchestration service provides both an OpenStack-native REST API and a
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CloudFormation-compatible Query API. The Orchestration service is also
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integrated with the OpenStack dashboard to perform stack functions through
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a web interface.
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For more information about using the Orchestration service through the
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command line, see the `Heat Command-Line Interface reference
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<https://docs.openstack.org/python-heatclient/latest/#openstackclient-command-line>`_.
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