Why use PoolParty?

• decouple your cloud management from a particular cloud provider

  The PoolParty architecture is cloud provider agnostic. PoolParty makes it possible to "own the valley, rent the peaks". And with PoolParty, it doesn't matter who you rent the peaks from.

• free and open source

  Avoid costly contracts and inflexible cookie-cutter scripts. PoolParty is free to everyone and ready for hacking.

• sexy and powerful DSL

  The PoolParty DSL is a joy to work with and easy on the eyes.

• powerful recipes, baked right in

  PoolParty comes with the ability to enable industry-standard software with only a few lines of code. Software such as Apache, MySQL, HAProxy, RabbitMQ is ready and waiting. Plus with the power of Chef you can easily integrate any of the hundreds of already available chef recipes into your cloud.

• extensible

  Plugins make it easy to extend PoolParty in complex ways that integrate seamlessly

• core team, active community

  There are currently three members of the PoolParty Core Team and the community is very active. Come visit us on IRC in #poolparty on irc.freenode.net