I was going through my email today and found a recent email from Matt Rechenburg of OpenQRM who just released OpenQRM version 4.2. In the latest addition OpenQRM has support for provisioning server images in the cloud.
Here’s the list of features:
This new version comes with additional support for VMware ESX, an integration with Puppet for automated configuration management, improvements for the high-availability mechanism and, last but not least, a Cloud-plugin. This new Cloud-plugin provides a fully automated private cloud with a separated Cloud portal for external data-center users to submit their requests to. The Cloud-plugin features a complete automated provisioning cycle including automatic de-provisioning, Deployment of physical and virtual machines from different virtualization types, P2V, V2P, V2V, P2P, “Clone-on-deploy” and a billing system.
Here’s a video demo for the latest version of OpenQRM, it’s pretty impressive.
OpenQRM isn’t the only OSS project receiving a lot of attention as a cloud tool, Enomaly and Puppet both have been getting some media attention from Ostatic and Information Week among others. I think all these projects have a bright future.
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On the subject of open source clouds, you may be interested in GroundOS. It looks to be competition to EC2, Azure, and Google.