why not ! it would be very cool to have an abstraction layer. The difficulty is to communicate with the virtualisation product. For Proxmox, it's easy because it uses HTTP but I don't know the other products.

Le 3 oct. 2013 � 10:05, Christophe Demarey a �crit :

Hi Olivier,

Cool.
Do you think it is possible to do a more generic Cloud interface in Pharo?
I mean an API agnostic to the used cloud manage (proxmox, cloudstack, openstack, amazon)? There is a Java project called jclouds[1] that does that.
It may be cool that other people can define more cloud providers.

Regards,
Christophe.

[1] : http://jclouds.incubator.apache.org/

Le 3 oct. 2013 � 08:06, Olivier Auverlot a �crit :

Hi,

I just started since 3 days to work on a new framework for Pharo. It's named "PROXimity". The goal of this framework is to control a Proxmox virtualization solution with Pharo.

Proxmox uses a REST API. With Zinc and STON, it's very easy to give orders as creating a virtual machine, managing the boot and stop, etc.

I'm working on this project  because it is a subpart of another application but I think that it could interest other Pharo users (for example: seaside hosting).

The first Pharo classes are published on SmalltalkHub. If you're interested and want join your forces with me, don't hesitate to contact me.


http://www.proxmox.com

http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_API

Best regards
Olivier ;-)