Everest makes building intrastructure in a cloud computing environment easy

Everest is a set of light weight tools that use Cobbler, Puppet, and Xen to provide developers and system administrators an easy way to initiate provisioning and system configuration of IT systems.

Everest goals:

• Consistently configure systems throughout the software development lifecycle, including production
• Provide a consistent disaster recovery solution for system configuration
• Enable large scale parallel developement of infrastructure systems

Everest uses:

• Cobbler - for OS provisioning and system profile management
• Func - for remote control of cloud based machines
• Puppet - for constent system configuration