= PoolParty

http://poolpartyrb.com

== DESCRIPTION:

PoolParty makes it easy and simple to configure any cloud of computers. In clear language, describe your cloud
with language such as:

pool :cloud do
 cloud :app do
  apache do
   has_virtualhost(:name => "/var/www/sites/poolpartyrb.com")
  end
 end
end

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

* Written in Ruby and Erlang
* Written from the ground up to be extensible with plugins
* Easy git-style commands to communicate with your clouds
* Much much more

== SYNOPSIS:

PoolParty is written with the intention of being as application-agnostic as possible. It installs only the basic 
required software to glue the cloud together on the instances as listed below.

PoolParty is easily configuration. In fact, it makes little assumptions about your development environment and allows 
several options on how to begin configuring the cloud.

== REQUIREMENTS:

Ruby
Erlang

== INSTALL:

sudo gem install auser-poolparty

== TODO:
* Update hot reloading of puppet (force-reload?)
* Add pingback for nodes to master when failure occurs
* Add become master for the nodes
* Add hot reload to haproxy while reconfiguring
* Replace services with Runit
* Refactor provisioning to use erlang
* Add queuing of tasks on the messenger
* Add syntax checker on the manifests
* Move in collectd support
* Add master query

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2008 Ari Lerner

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