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.

Heat website:

http://heat-api.org/

Download Heat API:

https://github.com/heat-api/heat/tags