Giving rise to the cloud with OpenStack Heat

Setting up an application server in the cloud isn’t that hard if you’re familiar with the tools and your application’s requirements. But what if you needed to do it dozens or hundreds of times, maybe even in one day? Enter Heat, the OpenStack Orchestration project. Heat provides a templating system for rolling out infrastructure within OpenStack to automate the process and attach the right resources to each new instance of your application. To learn more about Heat, say hello to Steve Baker. Steve served as the Program Technical Lead (PTL) for the Heat project during the Icehouse release cycle and is a senior software engineer at Red Hat.