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The goal of Poolparty is to provide an opensource stack to provision, deploy and auto scale applications in a cloud environment.

A cloud environment is one that abstracts underlying hardware, making it available thru simple programmatic requests.

• Add chef support for configuration management
• Add support for alternate cloud providers
  • GoGrid (gem: ec2u-gogrid)
  • Vmware (gem: ec2u-vmrun)
  • Parallels (gem: ec2u-parallels)
  • Virtualbox (gem: ec2u-vbox)
  • Qemu (gem: ec2u-qemu)
  • Xen
• Monitoring
  • Increase monitoring support to provide historical trends
  • Visualization of monitored data
  • Support collectd plugins natively (gem: collectd)
  • Explore the usefullness of ganglia, possibly as a plugin
  • REST interface to monitoring data
  • Support external monitoring service, such as pingdom.com
• Testing
  • Deployment testing
    • Use the local vmware or parallels remoter base for deployment testing.
    • Deployment tests will ensure:
      • the nodes actually boot
      • services are actually available
      • cloud expands when metric is passed
        • services are still available
        • cloud contracts when metric is downsized
        • services are still available
    • First, add test for basic poolparty deployment
    • Add tests for each plugin, and provide template for plugin developers
    • Provide a set of example, refrence deployments that are tested before every release.
      
      • Apache static site
      • Mysql Clustering (or maybe Postgres)
      • Rails site with passenger
      • PHP apache site
• Logging
  • provide a plugin for centralized logging
  • possibly provide a splunk plugin
• GUI "Cloud Panel"
  • Dashboard displaying current state
  • Gui (webpage) allowing the modification of cloud parameters
  • Possibly, within the gui, add user accounts and ability for users to create an application and upload, either as a tarball or thru git.
• Network
  • Distributed key based router (DKBR ), such as chord for node identification and lookup (gem for ruby interface, chordjerl for erlang implementation)
  • Distributed Hash Table (DHT) built on top of distributed keybased router
  • Investigate distrubued search, as it relates to the DHT
  • provide activerecord adapter to DHT
• Website
  • update code blocks, and use gist for all code blocks
  • update examples and tutorials as necessary
  • provide at least 1 screencast * Add hooks and define public API
  • provide a plugin directory, list known plugins with short description and link

_Note: gem tasks will likely be implemented in a seperate, independed gem that poolparty will include. It is our goal to refactor as much functionality as possible into seperate gems._