An API for obtaining and reusing computing resources.
Project description
CRCache
Copyright (c) 2013 crcache contributors
Licensed under either the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the BSD 3-clause license at the users choice. A copy of both licenses are available in the project source as Apache-2.0 and BSD. You may not use this file except in compliance with one of these two licences.
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Overview
crcache - Compute resource cache - is a command line tool that abstracts out obtaining, using and reusing computing resources. This permits separation of project concerns (such as ‘run dpkg-buildpackage’) from environmental concerns (such as using a Debian wheezy chroot to run the command in).
crcache lets you write programs that need to scale to multiple machines without tying yourself to one particular provisioning system. For instance, running tests locally, in lxc containers or in a compute cloud can be done with one crcache call, and the user can tell crcache where (and how) to obtain the compute resource to run the test in. A simple configuration system and command line API make it easy to reconfigure at will.
The default configuration will run commands locally with no container or any other isolation:
$ crcache acquire local $ crcache run local echo foo foo $ crcache release local
See the manual on https://crcache.readthedocs.org/ or in the docs/ subdirectory of the source tree for configuration details.
Differences to “Cloud” APIs
crcache differs to cloud APIs (both cloud specific and vendor neutral) in a few key ways:
It focuses on running simple commands within each resources, which gives a simple programming model.
Programs that layer on it do not need to know about the whole cloud computing model, instead that is a matter for configuration by the user.
It manages state locally, allowing mix-and-match across many clouds and/or local facilities such as chroots and containers.
Installation
Pip is the easiest way to install crcache:
$ pip install crcache
Requirements
crcache is intended to be widely portable. It should run (and if it doesn’t, its a bug) on any platform as long as you have:
Python 2.6+ or 3.2+.
The ‘extras’ Python module.
The ‘six’ Python module.
Some of the provider plugins for cr_cache may be less portable. When a provider depends on things outside the standard library (or newer than the version range above), it is placed in a separate tree, so that its installation is optional.
