Hi Dan, I want to explicitly thank Cloudkick for taking the decision to release the libcloud code. Thank you!
As for collaborating/contributing, anyone interested in more libcloud drivers getting support in Overmind, that is a good and easy way to start helping us. It is explained here in detail: http://github.com/tobami/overmind/wiki/How-to-contribute Miquel > Miquel, > >Looks awesome. I'll keep an eye on this project. The roadmap looks pretty > ambitious as well! > >-Dan 2010/10/14 Miquel Torres <[email protected]>: >> I am pleased to present Overmind, a new open source server management >> project that leverages libcloud. >> >> The last two years have brought many changes to the devops world. The >> advent of Configuration Management systems, with Puppet and Chef as >> the main contenders, has brought a host of apps that excel at >> specialized taks like server provisioning, app deployment, and more. >> But somehow the myriad of efforts are not benefiting each other, >> because they serve particular cases, like Rails or Django app >> deployment, for example. >> > With Overmind we aim to change this. By providing an integrated front > end to all your servers, completely provider independent, and > hopefully in the near future configuration management in a vendor > agnostic way by plugging in Chef, kokki, or any CMS, and later even > monitoring, it has the potential to be the basis on which every > organization can build its IT infrastructure, hooking in whatever > software they want to use to administer their servers. > > Two months ago, I devised a roadmap to get to a complete lifecycle > solution. We have now completed the first milestone. > > The current features are centered around a unified front-end for > clouds, custom server providers and dedicated hardware: > - Basic Web UI > - EC2 and Rackspace server provisioning. All libcloud drivers will be > supported as soon as there is some testing > - Provider plugins. Custom providers can be integrated into Overmind. > The “Dedicated Hardware” plugin allows to import any server by > specifying its IP > - REST API for providers and nodes > - Authentication with three user roles > > It is implemented on top of Django and libcloud (see > http://github.com/tobami/overmind/wiki/Architecture for more details) > > While it is in a very early stage, it is perfectly usable, and should > serve as a demonstration of what can be achieved with this approach. > > Thanks go to all libcloud contributors for making this much easier > than it would otherwise have been. We hope that Overmind also benefits > libcloud. In fact, it already has, as Grig has already committed a > patch to be able to create keypairs for EC2. > > For the second milestone the priorities will be to add configuration > management and implement a nicer UI (see > http://github.com/tobami/overmind/wiki/Roadmap for some ideas we have) > Contributors are welcome! > > You can download Overmind 0.1 from http://github.com/tobami/overmind/downloads > > Regards, > Miquel Torres >
