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[Justin Santa Barbara <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Congratulations on your project!

Just to clarify, PlatformLayer can run anything as a service, not just
databases.  I added support for running memcache as a service last night,
and Zookeeper clusters on Sunday...  I think RedDwarf is also moving away
from just supporting DBs.

A crowded space indeed! :-)

Justin




On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Angus Salkeld <asalkeld@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'd like to announce a new project that we have been working
> on, we have named it "Heat" (heat raises the clouds:).
>
> Our goal is to make it possible to manage multiple instance cloud
> applications with one template/specification file.
>
> Initially we want to implement as much as we can of the "AWS
> CloudFormation"
> API and later look at other API like TOSCA.
>
> We are attempting to write this in the style of an openstack project
> so as many people as possible can help out (come join in!).
>
> I know this is a busy topic area with several other interesting
> projects like Burrow, Donabe, Kanyun, Dough, Reddwarf and PlatformLayer.
>
> My hope is there we can form an exciting community at this layer and
> integrate where it makes sense.
>
> For instance many of the above projects implement (or could) some of
> the AWS resource types [1].
>
> Some things that could be done together:
>  - monitoring (Kanyun) and using the results to provide auto scaling.
>  - AWS::SQS::Queue (Burrow)
>  - AWS::RDS::DBInstance (Reddwarf/PlatformLayer)
>
>
> Unfortunately I won't be at the summit but Mark McLoughlin will give
> a lightening talk about it.
>
>
> Our project pages:
>  http://heat-api.org/
>  http://wiki.openstack.org/Heat
>  https://github.com/heat-api/heat
>
> Drop in at #heat on freenode or email our mailing list (
> http://lists.heat-api.org/mailman/listinfo).
>
> Regards
> Angus Salkeld
>
>
> [1]
> http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-template-resource-type-ref.html
>
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