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 <asalk...@redhat.com> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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