[rhos-list] Optimizing IT: Red Hat Virtual Event

[Steven Hardy]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 12:26:51AM -0500, Daniel Dumitriu wrote:
> Hey, Angus,
> 
> It's really good to see somebody with a "Heat bias". The heavier, the
> better!
> 
> Your last point is really interesting, because it expresses what I meant
> by "Heat managing/orchestrating" the aggregation of profiles...
> 
> I wouldn't call the generic Heat target "an application" but, rather, a
> "Heat system" or "Heat environment" or... any other name for
> "Instantiated Infrastructure Architecture Patterns".

The terminology we use is "stack", borrowed from AWS Cloudformation which
uses the same term for template-defined-infrastructure.

> In any case, if I understood you correctly, Heat is, already, headed in
> that direction.
> 
> (Note to self: Must look into Heat...)

If you're interested in an overview/introduction, you may like to look at
the slides for the presentation I gave at the EMEA openstack day yesterday:

http://people.redhat.com/~shardy/heat/emea-openstack-day-2012-12/shardy_emea_openstack_day_notes.pdf

I also have some screencast demos, but I need to do some editing and record
an audio narration, will try to get that done this week.

Steve (also a Heat developer :)