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What is Brume?
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- Brume is a private cloud application which can be easily installed and maintained on
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+ Brume is a private cloud service which can be easily installed and maintained on
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standard user laptop/desktop or even on a server.
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What is Cloud again?
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We follow `this definition <http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf>`_ of cloud.
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+ Brume is a very lightweight and minimally-featured Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) system.
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Why another cloud?
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- The existing FOSS cloud applications target Enterprise as the primary user.
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+ The existing FOSS IaaS systems target Enterprise as the primary user.
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This leaves a big hole where small/medium scale companies, universities,
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students can not install, or maintain a cloud of their own. The amount of
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technical knowledge required to maintain any of the available cloud is still
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- very high. Brume will fit in this hole where it will give the minimal features of any existing
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- cloud application.
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+ very high. Brume will fit in this hole where it will give the minimal features
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+ of any existing cloud service.
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If you install Brume, it will not destroy your existing network settings. One
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of the biggest setup point for starting is having a bridge device. In Brume,
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No. OpenStack is a big and complex project which can do all of things at the
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- same time. It has lots of plugins, it can make use of different kind of
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+ same time. It has lots of plugins, and can make use of different kinds of
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hardware for networking and storage. Brume will not have such capability. It
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will work on the standard libvirt on a Linux system. We are not trying to
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- compete with any such IAAS applications.
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+ compete with any such complete IaaS systems.
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Why not just use Vagrant then?
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#. Simple autoscaling of the instances
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The above list may change in future, but this is the initial goal we have.
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