Openstack Orchestration - Heat
After having struggled through with various building blocks of OpenStack, Heat was a great relief. It's installation and integration was pretty smooth. One of the most helpful documents was this one . By definition "The Orchestration service provides a template-based orchestration for describing a cloud application by running OpenStack API calls to generate running cloud applications." The templates enable you to create most OpenStack resource types, such as instances, floating IPs, volumes, security groups, users, and so on. Also, provides some more advanced functionality, such as instance high availability, instance auto-scaling, and nested stacks. By providing very tight integration with other OpenStack core projects, all OpenStack core projects could receive a larger user base. Components of the Orchestration service heat command-line client. A CLI that communicates with the heat-api to run AWS CloudFormation APIs. End developers could als