LinuxCon Europe + CloudOpen Europe

Building a Cloud at the Infrastructure as a Service layer involves selecting a IaaS solution, building, installing and configuring it. Once operational however the system administrators and developers need various clients and high level tools to manage the cloud and build new services. From configuration management for the instances deployed in the cloud to deploying clusters of virtual machines and providing new services end-points. In this talk we will focus on clients and tools to use with Apache CloudStack. We will review several tools in Python, ruby and Clojure and see how they are used with CloudStack. Specifically we will look at Apache libcloud, Clostack, Knife-CS and Apache Whirr. We will show how these tools help you move from low level Cloud interaction to building high value services.