builder:
- is a Python language project
- uses Threadbare to run commands locally and remotely
- has a bash script
bldrthat wraps running commands
It has the following responsibilities:
- provisioning: creating cloud resources such as virtual machines, buckets, queues, etc via AWS CloudFormation.
- automation: installing software stacks on virtual machines (Salt)
- orchestration: connecting projects together in their environments (CloudFormation, Boto)
- discovery: allowing developers to list and access projects servers (CloudFormation, SSH)
- deployment: allowing developers and CI systems to change a project version on a deployment
It builds on top of:
- Vagrant for creating, running and managing local Virtualbox project instances
- Amazon AWS services for creating, running and managing remote project instances
as well as ...
- AWS CloudFormation templates for describing stacks of AWS services
- the Boto library for communication between tasks and AWS services
but most importantly:
- Salt, to describe what these local and remote environments must be, in a consistent way no matter if you are inside a VM or a EC2 instance.