What is SlapOS?
SlapOS is an open source cloud computing platform designed to deploy and manage applications across multiple cloud providers. It provides a unified interface to help abstract away the differences in cloud providers and make application deployment and management easier.
Some key features of SlapOS include:
- Ability to deploy applications across multiple IaaS providers like OpenStack, OpenNebula, Amazon EC2 etc.
- Automated application scaling and high availability through a master/slave architecture
- Support for multi-tenancy to enable SaaS applications
- Decentralized architecture to improve performance and resilience
- Python APIs and command line tools to manage applications
- Built on top of open source technologies like GRID5000, OpenSSL, Buildout etc.
SlapOS aims to help users easily deploy applications at scale across multiple cloud providers. The unified interface and automation helps reduce vendor lock-in and makes cloud management simpler. It's ideal for deploying large, distributed applications and SaaS solutions.