==================================== Nimboss: The Nimbus Provisioning API

Install

Create a virtualenv: $ virtualenv nimboss_env

Install dependencies: $ pip -E nimboss_env install zope.interface httplib2 simplejson $ cd nimboss_env $ git clone git://github.com/apache/libcloud.git $ cd libcloud; python setup.py install; cd ..

Install Nimboss: $ git clone [email protected]:clemesha-ooi/nimboss.git # Read+Write, or use "git://...". $ cd nimboss $ python setup.py install

Tests

Nimboss currently uses Python's unittest framework.

To run tests: $ cd tests $ python tests.py

Layout of Nimboss

node.py

Node specific connection and management.

cluster.py

Cluster management and driver implementation for both EC2 and Nimbus. Support for Cluster creation, termination, and status querying.

broker.py

Communication with the Nimbus Context Broker. Support for creating Context and querying Cluster status.

nimbus.py

Nimbus 'Cluster document' and 'Cluster spec' utitlities.