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[Tomas Sedovic <tsedovic@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The heat developers are happy to announce the release of new version of 
Heat.

Heat is a project designed for OpenStack that implements AWS 
CloudFormation. CloudFormation is a programmable interface and 
tempalting system for orchestrating multiple cloud applications.

Try it out on Fedora 17:

https://github.com/heat-api/heat/blob/master/docs/GettingStarted.rst#readme

Or Ubuntu 12.04:

https://github.com/heat-api/heat/wiki/Getting-Started-with-Heat-using-Master-on-Ubuntu

What's new in version 5:

* Load balancing and Autoscaling
  Heat can now use CloudWatch to monitor instances and cause stacks to 
scale up and down.

* Per-tenant stacks
  Stacks are now accessed per-tenant rather than per-user. If two users 
belong to the same tenant, they can see and modify the same stacks.

* Update stack
  A running stack can now be updated by sending a new template via the 
`UpdateStack` API call.

* Remote Database Storage
  Heat now supports RDS::DBInstance which is: a preconfigured MySQL 
instance that other resources can use. Support for multiple availability 
zones and database snapshots is not yet implemented.

* Improved API compatibility
  Heat API is now fully aligned with AWS CloudFormation API spec. Heat 
developers have produced a port of the heat CLI tool which uses the Boto 
AWS client library.


https://github.com/heat-api/heat/wiki/Heat-CLI-Boto-migration-&-API-rework

* Integration tests
  Heat now has scripts for running integration tests using Beaker:

  https://github.com/heat-api/heat-integration-tests#heat-integration-tests

* Usability improvements for heat-jeos
  The command line tool for generating OS images is now more flexible 
and easier to use.

Note that single-instance EBS templates are not functional at the 
moment:


https://github.com/heat-api/heat/issues/185 


Heat website:

http://heat-api.org/

Download Heat API:

https://github.com/heat-api/heat/downloads