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Supported Services and Clouds
Apache Whirr™
Apache Whirr is a set of libraries for running cloud services.
Whirr provides:
A cloud-neutral way to run services. You don't have to worry about the idiosyncrasies of
each provider.
A common service API. The details of provisioning are particular to the service.
Smart defaults for services. You can get a properly configured system running quickly,
while still being able to override settings as needed.
You can also use Whirr as a command line tool for deploying clusters.
Download a release of Whirr from a
nearby
mirror
Getting Started
Start with
Whirr in 5 Minutes
or the
Quick Start Guide
There is also an
FAQ
which covers how to achieve common tasks with Whirr, and a
configuration guide
for reference.
Find out more about Whirr at our
wiki
Getting Involved
Have you got a suggestion for improving Whirr? It's easy to
get
involved
History
The code that would become Whirr started out in 2007 as some
bash scripts in
Apache Hadoop
for running Hadoop clusters on EC2. Later the scripts were
ported to
Python
for extra features (such as EBS support) and a wider range of cloud providers. These
Python scripts are no longer supported, but can be found in the 0.5.0 release and the
contrib-python
SVN branch.
In May 2010 the Apache Whirr
Incubator project was started to give a home to the existing work that had been done, but
also to create a Java version using
jclouds
as the cloud
provisioning library. jclouds supports many providers and has a very rich API for running code
on instances, so it provides a very solid foundation for building Whirr on.
In August 2011 Whirr became an Apache Top-Level Project.
The Apache Software Foundation
Apache Whirr, Whirr, Apache, the Apache feather logo, and the Apache Whirr project logo are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation.