Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: azure-elasticluster
Version: 1.1-dev0
Summary: A command line tool to create, manage and setup computing clusters hosted on a public or private cloud infrastructure.
Home-page: https://github.com/gc3-uzh-ch/elasticluster
Author: Grid Computing Competence Centre, University of Zurich
Author-email: info@gc3.lists.uzh.ch
License: LGPL
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        `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
        <http://elasticluster.readthedocs.org/>`_ 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.
        
        .. References
        
        .. _`elasticluster`: http://gc3-uzh-ch.github.io/elasticluster/
        .. _`Grid Computing Competence Center`: http://www.gc3.uzh.ch/
        .. _`University of Zurich`: http://www.uzh.ch
        .. _`GC3 Hobbes cloud`: http://www.gc3.uzh.ch/infrastructure/hobbes
        .. _`configuration template`: https://raw.github.com/gc3-uzh-ch/elasticluster/master/docs/config.template.ini
        .. _`GNU General Public License version 3`: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
        .. _`YouTube video`: http://youtu.be/cR3C7XCSMmA
        
        .. _`Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud EC2`: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
        .. _`Google Compute Engine`: https://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine
        .. _`OpenStack`: http://www.openstack.org/
        
        .. _`Debian GNU/Linux`: http://www.debian.org
        .. _`Ubuntu`: http://www.ubuntu.com
        .. _`CentOS`: http://www.centos.org/
        .. _`SLURM`: https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/
        .. _`Grid Engine`: http://gridengine.info
        .. _`TORQUE+MAUI`: http://www.adaptivecomputing.com/products/open-source/torque/
        .. _`Hadoop`: http://hadoop.apache.org/
        .. _`IPython cluster`: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/parallel/
        .. _`Ganglia`: http://ganglia.info
        .. _`GlusterFS`: http://www.gluster.org/
        .. _`Ceph`: http://ceph.com/
        .. _`OrangeFS`: http://orangefs.org/
        .. _`Ansible`: http://ansible.cc 
        .. _`file enhancement requests and ideas`: https://github.com/gc3-uzh-ch/elasticluster/issues
        
        .. _`Python`: http://www.python.org
        .. _`pip`: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip
        .. _`github`: https://github.com/
        .. _`github elasticluster repository`: https://github.com/gc3-uzh-ch/elasticluster
        .. _`python virtualenv`: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
        
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