azure-elasticluster-current 0.1.dev2

Description:

azureelasticlustercurrent 0.1.dev2

Elasticluster aims to provide a user-friendly command line tool to
create, manage and setup computing clusters hosted on cloud
infrastructures (like Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 or Google
Compute Engine)
or a private OpenStack cloud). Its main goal
is to get your own private cluster up and running with just a few commands; a YouTube video
demoes the basic features of elasticluster.
This project is an effort of the
Grid Computing Competence Center at the
University of Zurich, licensed under the
GNU General Public License version 3.
Documentation for elasticluster is available on the Read The Docs website

Features
Elasticluster is in active development, but offers the following features at the current state:

Simple configuration file to define cluster templates
Can start and manage multiple independent clusters at the same time

Automated cluster setup:

use Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, or CentOS as a base operating system
choose SLURM, Grid Engine or TORQUE+MAUI as a batch-queueing system
setup your Hadoop cluster to start your favorite map/reduce job
or create your IPython cluster to run your python code in
parallel over multiple virtual machines
configure a distributed storage like GlusterFS or Ceph, or a
parallel filesystem like OrangeFS (formerly known as PVFS2)
add useful tools like Ganglia for monitoring…
…or anything that you can install with an Ansible playbook!




Grow and shrink a running cluster

Elasticluster is currently in active development: please use the
GitHub issue tracker to file enhancement requests and ideas
We appreciate pull requests for new features and enhancements. Please
use the master branch as starting point.


Quickstart

Installing from PyPI
Elasticluster is a Python program; Python
version 2.6 is required to run it.
It’s quite easy to install elasticluster using
pip; the command below is all you
need to install elasticluster on your system:
pip install elasticluster
If you want to run elasticluster from source you have to install
Ansible first:
pip install ansible
python setup.py install


Installing the development version from github
The source code of elasticluster is github, if you want to test the
latest development version you can clone the github elasticluster repository.
You need the git command in order to be able to clone it, and we
suggest you to use python virtualenv in order to create a
controlled environment in which you can install elasticluster as
normal user.
Assuming you already have virtualenv installed on your machine,
you first need to create a virtualenv and install ansible, which is
needed by elasticluster:
virtualenv elasticluster
. elasticluster/bin/activate
pip install ansible
Then you have to download the software. We suggest you to download it
within the created virtualenv:
cd elasticluster
git clone git://github.com/gc3-uzh-ch/elasticluster.git src
cd src
python setup.py install
Now the elasticluster should be available in your current
environment.