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[Michaël Van de Borne <michael.vandeborne@xxxxxxxx>]

Thank you. I know about euca2ools.
What I wanted to know is whether, besides being an EC2-at-home facility, 
OpenStack also acts on a higher level, being able to manage third-party 
instances (such as Scalextreme for instance).
But it seems it isn't its role.

thanks,

michaël



Le 02/10/2012 15:30, Jonathan Proulx a écrit :
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:19:45PM +0200, Michaël Van de Borne wrote:
> :Hi all,
> :
> :This might be obvious, but I can't find the answer. Is there a way to
> :control EC2 instances using OpenStack?
>
> OpenStack provides the same facility as EC2 but on your own hardware,
> so they don't really touch.  Glance (the image store componet of
> OpenStack) can use S3 for storage, but I don't think it's a good idea
> unless you have a a really fast pipe to Amazon and deep pockets to pay
> transfer fees.  Perhaps others have different opinions on that point
> (caveat: I haven't actually tried impeneting this that way)
>
> You can use some of the same tools to manage instances on both since
> OpenStack provides an EC2 compatible API (I've used euca2ools and  hybridfox
> with both).
>
>
> -Jon