Hi folks, A few developers from HA community have been hard at work on a project called heat which provides native HA for OpenStack virtual machines. Heat provides a template based system with API matching AWS CloudFormation semantics specifically for OpenStack. In v5, instance heatlhchecking has been added. To get started on Fedora 16+ check out the getting started guide: https://github.com/heat-api/heat/blob/master/docs/GettingStarted.rst#readme or on Ubuntu Precise check out the devstack guide: https://github.com/heat-api/heat/wiki/Getting-Started-with-Heat-using-Master-on-Ubuntu An example template with instance HA features is here: https://github.com/heat-api/heat/blob/master/templates/WordPress_Single_Instance_With_IHA.template An example template with applicatoin HA features that includes escalation is here: https://github.com/heat-api/heat/blob/master/templates/WordPress_Single_Instance_With_HA.template Our website is here: http://www.heat-api.org The software can be downloaded from: https://github.com/heat-api/heat/downloads Enjoy -steve -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster