Infrastructure as Code for Your Cloud
RamNode Heat Orchestration is built on OpenStack Heat, giving you a declarative way to define, deploy, and manage entire cloud stacks from YAML templates. It is included free with every Virtual Private Cloud.
What Is Heat Orchestration?
Heat is the OpenStack orchestration service. It lets you describe a complete cloud environment in a YAML template, then provision and manage all of the resources automatically. Instead of creating instances, networks, volumes, and security groups one at a time, you define them once and Heat builds the entire stack for you.
Heat templates, often called HOT templates, are declarative. You specify what you want, and Heat figures out the order of operations, dependencies, and rollback behavior. Templates can be launched from the Cloud Control Panel, the OpenStack CLI, or the API, making it easy to fit Heat into manual workflows or full automation pipelines.
What Can You Use Heat For?
Heat turns repetitive provisioning into repeatable, version-controlled infrastructure. It is useful for anything from single-instance deployments to complex multi-tier applications.
Infrastructure as Code
Store your infrastructure in Git alongside your application code, so environments can be reviewed, versioned, and reused.
Repeatable Deployments
Deploy the same stack across development, staging, and production with consistent configuration every time.
Multi-Resource Stacks
Provision instances, networks, volumes, security groups, load balancers, and floating IPs in a single template.
Safe Updates & Rollback
Heat tracks stack resources and can roll back failed creations automatically, keeping partial deployments from lingering.
CI/CD Integration
Trigger stack creation and updates from your CI/CD pipeline using the OpenStack API or CLI.
Environment Separation
Use environment files to inject different parameters into the same template for different stages or projects.
Why Use RamNode Heat Orchestration?
Included free. Heat Orchestration is available at no extra cost as part of your RamNode Virtual Private Cloud.
OpenStack native. Built on OpenStack Heat, so stacks can be created and managed through the control panel, CLI, API, and SDKs.
Declarative templates. Write YAML HOT templates that describe the desired state, then let Heat handle provisioning order and dependencies.
Stack lifecycle management. Create, update, and delete entire stacks as a single unit instead of managing individual resources.
Automatic rollback. Enable rollback on failure so incomplete or broken stacks are cleaned up automatically.
Flexible inputs. Provide templates and environment files by file upload, URL, or direct paste in the control panel.
Heat Orchestration at a Glance
Automate Your Cloud Infrastructure
Heat Orchestration is included free with every RamNode Virtual Private Cloud. Read the documentation to learn how to write HOT templates, manage stack lifecycles, and deploy complete environments from the control panel or OpenStack API.
Related Capabilities
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KVM-based virtual machines on OpenStack that can be provisioned individually or as part of a Heat stack.
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Persistent NVMe volumes that can be created, attached, and managed through Heat templates.
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OpenStack Designate DNS zones can be orchestrated alongside instances and load balancers for end-to-end deployments.
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