jclouds is a cloud agnostic library for the JVM that enables developers to access a variety of supported cloud providers using one API.
jclouds tests support of 30 cloud providers and cloud software stacks including Amazon, Azure, GoGrid, Ninefold, OpenStack, Rackspace, and vCloud.
The jclouds Compute API provides a basic abstraction across Compute APIs such as Amazon EC2 and VMware vCloud.
Key Features
- Simple interface.
- Runtime portability.
- Handles issues such as transient failures and redirects that traditional network based computing introduces.
- Write your unit tests without mocking complexity or the brittleness of remote connections.
- Asynchronous commands and tunable http, date, encryption, and encryption modules.
- Location-aware abstractions.
- Supported providers: AWS, Bluelock, CloudSigma US, CloudSigma CH, ElasticHosts GB, ElasticHosts US, Go2Cloud, GoGrid, Green House Data, HP, Ninefold, OpenHosting, Rackspace UK, Rackspace US, SeverLove, SkaliCloud, SoftLayer, Stratogen, TRMK, and TryStack.
- Supported APIs: Abiquo, AWS, Bring Your Own Node, CloudSigma, CloudStack, ElasticStack, OpenStack, and vCloud.
Website: jclouds.apache.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: The Apache Software Foundation
License: Apache License Version 2.0
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Related Software
| Cloud Management Tools | |
|---|---|
| Puppet | Centralised configuration management for networks |
| Chef | Configuration management system written in Ruby |
| Libcloud | Unified interface to manage cloud services |
| Juju | Build entire environments in the cloud with only a few commands |
| Ganeti | Cluster virtual server management software tool |
| jclouds | Cloud agnostic library |
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