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Whether you need compute, dns, storage, or a multitude of other services, fog provides an accessible entry point and facilitates cross service compatibility.
Just getting started working with cloud resources? You are not alone, and having so many complicated options makes it hard to know where to start. fog delivers the knowledge of cloud experts to you, helping you to bootstrap your cloud usage and guiding you as your own expertise develops.
By coding with fog from the start you avoid vendor lock-in and give yourself more flexibility to provide value. Whether you are writing a library, designing a software as a service product or just hacking on the weekend this flexibility is a huge boon.
With a rapidly expanding community and codebase the advantages of fog just keep coming. Join us and together we will realize the future of cloud computing.
Getting Started
sudo gem install fog
Now type 'fog' to try stuff, confident that fog will let you know what to do. Here is an example of wading through server creation for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud:
>> server = AWS.servers.create
ArgumentError: image_id is required for this operation
>> server = AWS.servers.create(:image_id => 'ami-5ee70037')
<Fog::AWS::EC2::Server [...]>
>> server.destroy # cleanup after yourself or regret it, trust me
true
Go forth and conquer
Play around and use the console to explore or check out the getting started guide for more details. Once you are reading to start scripting fog, here is a quick hint on how to make connections without the command line thing to help you.
# create a compute connection
compute = Fog::Compute.new({:provider => 'AWS', :aws_access_key_id => ACCESS_KEY_ID, :aws_secret_access_key => SECRET_ACCESS_KEY})
# compute operations go here
# create a storage connection
storage = Fog::Storage.new({:provider => 'AWS', :aws_access_key_id => ACCESS_KEY_ID, :aws_secret_access_key => SECRET_ACCESS_KEY})
# storage operations go here
geemus says: "That should give you everything you need to get started, but let me know if there is anything I can do to help!"
Contributing
- Find something you would like to work on. For suggestions look for the
easy,mediumandhardtags in the issues - Fork the project and do your work in a topic branch.
- Add shindo tests to prove your code works and run all the tests using
bundle exec rake. - Rebase your branch against geemus/fog to make sure everything is up to date.
- Commit your changes and send a pull request.
T-Shirts
Wonder how you can get a lovely fog shirt? Look no further!
- Blue shirts go to people who have contributed indirectly, great examples are writing blog posts or giving lightning talks.
- Grey shirts and a follow from @fog go to people who have made it on to the contributors list by submitting code.
- Black shirts go to people who have made it on to the collaborators list by coercing geemus into adding them (geemus is currently the only member of this list).
Resources
Enjoy, and let me know what I can do to continue improving fog!
- Work through the fog tutorial
- Read fog's API documentation
- Stay up to date by following @fog and/or @geemus on Twitter.
- Get and give help on the #ruby-fog irc channel on Freenode
- Follow release notes and discussions on the mailing list
- Report bugs or find tasks to help with in the issues
- Learn about contributing
- See where fog is used and let the world know how you use it in the wild
- Check out blog posts and other mentions in the press
Copyright
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2010 geemus (Wesley Beary)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.