Hostmedic » ruv http://www.hostmedic.com Emergency Medicine for Hosting & Server Admins Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:51:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 DeltaCloud = (Redhat{ ec2+RHEV-M+vmWare+… …) http://www.hostmedic.com/admin/open-source-solutions/deltacloud/ http://www.hostmedic.com/admin/open-source-solutions/deltacloud/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:36:30 +0000 Glenn Kelley http://www.hostmedic.com/?p=491

Red Hat earlier this past week announced their new  DeltaCloud Interoperability API Framework.

Many for the longest time thought Red Hat was going to be content sitting on the periphery of the cloud without taking a dive.   The surgance of the DeltaCloud API framework solidifies Red Hat’s  goal of building up developers with tools, scripts, and applications which can work together across the clouds – both public and private.

DeltaCloud SOA diagram

DeltaCloud SOA diagram

What I absolutely love however – is that Red Hat has released this as OPEN SOURCE using Ruby as the agent to drive the api onto clouds like EC2 as well as private offerings like VMWare and KVM (which comes as default now in RedHat and other Linux kernels).

RedHat was also the team behind Libvirt – a toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes) – also Open Source.

While the initiation of a new open source project within Red Hat is certainly not news something of this caliber is great news for the entire Cloud community. DeltaCloud Demo

Deltacloud gives you:

  • REST API (simple, any-platform access)
  • Support for EC2, RHEV-M; VMWare ESX, RackSpace coming soon

    Demo Movie

    Demo Movie

  • Backward compatibility across versions, providing long-term stability for scripts, tools and applications
I was looking for an alternative to the Enomalism OpenSource project – as while its decent – I just wanted something that has a larger company behind it – something that will have a decent install base (which this does not yet) and better yet – has some serious growth potential.   Enomaly open-source however needs to mature in my opinion… (the install for example is not easy for many to conquer ) – but their pay to play version is $16 per Core.
When you have a server with 24 cores – and not just one but a boatload $16 per Core is a bit pricey – but I can understand having to of course pay for the investment made.
Take a peek @ this new member to the cloud.
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