Cloud and Automation are real buzzwords these days. The concept of “the cloud” is evolving day-by-day. The open-source community is working hard for evolving the cloud concept, helping cloud users and to provide every facility required by users. Openstack is an open-source software platform for cloud management.

Heat is an OpenStack component that provides a template to create different OpenStack resources like Instance, Router, Network, etc. Heat primarily manages infrastructure, but the templates integrate well with software configuration management tools. Continue reading →