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[Steven Dake <sdake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/10/2012 10:19 AM, Justin Santa Barbara wrote:
> 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! :-) 
> 

While a bit crowded, the heat project intends to deliver AWS
CloudFormations APIs (and perhaps Tosca or other relevant standards down
the road) rather then reinvent devops toolchains which are already done
well with puppet/chef/etc.  Don't know of any project handling the AWS
CloudFormations API objective.

Regards
-steve

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