The heat developers are happy to announce the release of new version of Heat. Heat is a project designed for OpenStack that implements AWS CloudFormation. CloudFormation is a programmable interface and tempalting system for orchestrating multiple cloud applications. Try it out on Fedora 17: https://github.com/heat-api/heat/blob/master/docs/GettingStarted.rst#readme Or Ubuntu 12.04: https://github.com/heat-api/heat/wiki/Getting-Started-with-Heat-using-Master-on-Ubuntu What's new in version 5: * Load balancing and Autoscaling Heat can now use CloudWatch to monitor instances and cause stacks to scale up and down. * Per-tenant stacks Stacks are now accessed per-tenant rather than per-user. If two users belong to the same tenant, they can see and modify the same stacks. * Update stack A running stack can now be updated by sending a new template via the `UpdateStack` API call. * Remote Database Storage Heat now supports RDS::DBInstance which is: a preconfigured MySQL instance that other resources can use. Support for multiple availability zones and database snapshots is not yet implemented. * Improved API compatibility Heat API is now fully aligned with AWS CloudFormation API spec. Heat developers have produced a port of the heat CLI tool which uses the Boto AWS client library. https://github.com/heat-api/heat/wiki/Heat-CLI-Boto-migration-&-API-rework * Integration tests Heat now has scripts for running integration tests using Beaker: https://github.com/heat-api/heat-integration-tests#heat-integration-tests * Usability improvements for heat-jeos The command line tool for generating OS images is now more flexible and easier to use. Note that single-instance EBS templates are not functional at the moment: https://github.com/heat-api/heat/issues/185 Heat website: http://heat-api.org/ Download Heat API: https://github.com/heat-api/heat/downloads