Concept
Heat
OpenStack native orchestration using HOT (YAML) templates that declare networks, instances, security, and supporting resources as one stack. Legacy on Quake AI — use OpenTofu for new infrastructure automation. Stack events timeline failures while updates stay idempotent when templates drift.
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Covers concept (incoming)
- Automation / IaC FAQ→
- Automation API error reference→
- Automation console→
- Automation Service CLI Reference→
- Coming from AWS→
- Deploy the Heat Simple Stack template with the OpenStack CLI→
- Heat Simple Stack→
- How Quake AI uses OpenStack→
- How to auto-scale a VM tier with Heat→
- How to create a Heat stack→
- OpenStack for AWS developers→
documented at
- Automation / IaC FAQ→
- Automation API error reference→
- Automation console→
- Automation Service CLI Reference→
- Coming from AWS→
- Deploy the Heat Simple Stack template with the OpenStack CLI→
- Heat Simple Stack→
- How Quake AI uses OpenStack→
- How to auto-scale a VM tier with Heat→
- How to create a Heat stack→
- OpenStack for AWS developers→