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Winged Monkey is a concept for a user portal backed by a cloud provider and offers simplified interactions for non-administrative users, with some specific goals:

• Browse a list of applications which I can launch
• Launch applications, with the minimum necessary steps
• See the status of applications which I have launched
• Terminate applications which I have launched
• See a history of applications I have run in the past

There are some things that Winged Monkey will not do:

• System/application design and image building
• Account multiplexing/cloud brokering

Winged Monkey is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

Applications are collections of virtual instances that can be launched and configured to operate together to provide a single application or need. Some examples might be standing up a clustered web app server, or creating an animation rendering farm. An application can also be a single virtual instance, if that's all you need.

Back end provider, or cloud provider refers to both public and private clouds. For public clouds, this could be Amazon's EC2 or Rackspace's Open Cloud. For private clouds this could be OpenStack or Red Hat's Enterprise Virtualization. This could also be a single pool configured in Aeolus Conductor.

Cloud account multiplexing refers to sharing one set of credentials for a back end provider with multiple users. This can be useful for IT organizations trying to track costs associated with public cloud use. Account multiplexing is one of the services offered by Aeolus Conductor.

To get started, check out our Source Install instructions.

Once you have things running, see how to configure providers.