The Grid Computing Competence Center (GC3) is pleased to announce release 1.0.1 of Elasticluster.
Elasticluster is a Python tool to automate the creation, configuration and management of clusters of virtual machines hosted on a cloud. It can provision clusters on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 and compatible ones, like OpenStack. Elasticluster leverages the Ansible automation framework to deploy and configure software on the virtual cluster. Any Ansible playbook can in principle be used with Elasticluster; the default distribution contains recipes for: * Hadoop clusters with HDFS * HPC clusters based on SLURM, SGE, or PBS * storage clusters running Ceph, GlusterFS or PVFS A video demoes the basic features of Elasticluster setting up a SLURM compute cluster: http://youtu.be/cR3C7XCSMmA The code is available from PyPI and GitHub. If you are interested, please visit http://gc3-uzh-ch.github.io/elasticluster/ or get in touch with us at elasticlus...@googlegroups.com. Kind regards, (for the Grid Computing Competence Center) Riccardo Murri -- Riccardo Murri http://www.gc3.uzh.ch/people/rm Grid Computing Competence Centre University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich (Switzerland) Tel: +41 44 635 4222 Fax: +41 44 635 6888 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list