Heat

Heat provides a REST API to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications implementing the AWS CloudFormations API.

Why heat? It makes the clouds rise!

Architecture

The developers are focused on creating an OpenStack style project using OpenStack design tenants implemented in Python. We have started with full integration with Keystone. We have three components.

An overview of the architecture is available. More details of the heat implementation can be found here. As the developers have only started development in March 2012, the architecture is in a rapid change.

heat

The heat tool is a CLI which communicates with the heat-api to execute AWS CloudFormations APIs. End developers could also use the heat REST API directly.

heat-api

The heat-api component provides a REST API that processes API requests by sending them to the heat-engine.

heat-engine

The heat engine connects to the heat-api over RPC to process API operations. The heat engine's main responsibility is to orchestrate the launching of templates and provide events back to the API consumer.

The templates integrate well with Puppet and Chef

Links

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/heat-api

Web Site: http://www.heat-api.org

Mailing List: here

Milestones: here

Open Issues: here

IRC

The developers use IRC on #heat on freenode for development discussion.

Status of implementation

March 16, 2012 - Code base started.

March 29, 2012 - Not quite launching a template yet.