In this exercise I thought that I could kill two birds with one stone — I could create a screencast for this course, and also use it internally at work to show off a new service that we are implementing…
Provisioning a cloud instance with Heat
Heat is a new beta service that provisions your applications in the cloud from instructions contained in a simple text template.
You navigate to the Heat page, upload a template for your chosen application, then provide the values for any parameters required by the template. Once you’ve done this Heat will create and provision the resources required by the application within a matter of minutes.
The Heat service can make getting an application up and running on the cloud an almost a click and go experience!
The screencast below demonstrates a walk through of the process outlined above, and along the way fills in some extra information about the beta Heat service
Time: 3m22s