OpenStack Heat Installation

Description

OpenStack is a tool made to assist on creating scalable virtual clouds [1].

Along with OpenStack, various other services have been built by its developers to serve various needs of the users of this tool. One of these services is OpenStack Heat [2]. This service helps automate the construction of cloud environments within OpenStack. It therefore gives the ability to create a Virtual Machine on demand. Each of the mentioned services can be used by applications using various REST APIs.

Repository Contents

• openstack-heat/heat-installation:
  • An MD documentation about the installation of the OpenStack Heat service on OpenStack
• openstack-heat/heat-apis:
  • An MD documentation on how to use the OpenStack Heat REST APIs

References

• [1] https://www.openstack.org/
• [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat