In the previous chapter, we walked through installing and setting up Heat component for OpenStack. We created a very basic Heat template, and then we set up a simple stack using that template.
In this chapter, we will explore the architecture of Heat in further detail. We will focus on the following topics in this chapter:
Standards used in Heat
The Heat overview and roadmap
The Heat basic architecture and CLI
The Heat basic workflow
The Heat API
The Heat CloudWatch API
The Heat engine
Heat autoscaling principles
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