Introduction & Preliminary Feature Set

Introduction

Scarlet Nebula is going to be a Java based software program mainly for
managing VM (Virtual Machine) based IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) clouds.

Features

• Mixed clouds (communicating servers from different cloud providers, possibly even private clouds)
• A tree based navigational structure for servers. This will allow for  grouping of servers and scaling from a single to thousands of servers.
• Statistical tracking of the amount of time servers are online
• Graphs for tracking stuff like CPU usage and other useful data on the "health" of a server. 
• Extensive scripting that allows for starting new servers with a single click.
• Triggers that can send alerts in the form of emails, execute scripts,...

And of course the obvious ones like

• Starting new servers
• Executing commands on one or more servers
• Transferring files to one or more servers
• Shutting servers down
• Auto-scaling

Under the motto "all code is better than no code" the Dasein Cloud API seems somewhat interesting. Although the entire Dasein documentation seems to consist of 1 short page of API reference and less than a handful of short code examples, code quality seems to be okay and it is still being actively developed.