fog/fog
Fog
Fog is a Ruby cloud infrastructure SDK that provides a standardized interface for managing compute, storage, and network resources across multiple cloud providers. It utilizes a multi-cloud abstraction layer to translate generic resource requests into provider-specific API calls, unifying infrastructure control through a consistent set of Ruby objects.
The project includes a cloud API mocking framework that simulates provider responses and resource behavior in memory. This allows for the testing of infrastructure integration logic without making actual network requests or incurring provider costs.
The SDK covers several core capability areas, including virtual machine management, server provisioning, and remote command execution. It provides tools for cloud storage operations and metadata inspection, as well as the administration of DNS zones and content delivery network distributions.
Features
- Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Control - Provides a single standardized Ruby interface for controlling compute, storage, and network resources across multiple cloud vendors.
- Provider Abstraction Layers - Translates generic resource requests into provider-specific API calls through a consistent set of Ruby objects.
- Cloud Provider Integrations - Provides local implementations of cloud service APIs to simulate behavior and verify logic without network requests.
- Cloud Object Storage - Provides a consistent interface for storing and retrieving unstructured data as blobs in cloud environments.
- Cloud Infrastructure SDKs - Provides a comprehensive Ruby SDK for the programmatic management of multi-cloud compute, network, and storage resources.
- Virtual Machine Management - Controls the full lifecycle of virtual machine instances across different cloud platforms.
- Cloud Service Mocks - Includes a framework for simulating cloud service APIs to verify application logic without live infrastructure.
- Cloud Resource Managers - Provides a unified interface to discover, catalog, and control virtual machines, storage, and network resources across clouds.
- Infrastructure Abstraction Layers - Implements a modular interface that translates generic resource requests into provider-specific API calls.
- Remote Command Execution - Provides capabilities for running shell commands on cloud servers and retrieving standard output and exit status.
- Server Provisioning - Automates the deployment and configuration of servers, including security groups and SSH keys.
- DNS Record Management - Configures DNS record types such as A and CNAME to map domains to IP addresses across cloud providers.
- Zone Management - Administrates public and private DNS zones and retrieves the nameservers required for registrar updates.
- Cloud Provider Abstractions - Provides a generalized interface layer that decouples the SDK from provider-specific cloud and hypervisor APIs.
- Cloud API Mocks - Simulates provider API responses and resource behavior in memory to test infrastructure code without incurring costs.
- Cloud Storage Services - Offers a unified Ruby API for managing remote object storage and local filesystems.
- Cloud Storage Wrappers - Provides an abstraction layer that decouples file operations from specific cloud storage provider APIs.
- Content Delivery Networks - Provides high-level control over content delivery networks, including distribution management and edge cache invalidation.
- Local Storage Emulators - Simulates cloud-based object storage using local directories to facilitate development and testing of upload workflows.
- In-Memory Service Mocks - Simulates cloud provider behavior in memory to allow infrastructure integration testing without external network calls.
- Dynamic Resource Mapping - Implements a configurable internal lookup mechanism to map generic resource requests to provider-specific API endpoints.
- CDN Distribution Management - Implements tools for managing CDN distributions, including protocol policies and custom CNAME mappings.
- Cloud DNS Services - Offers a standardized interface for creating DNS zones and managing record types across multiple cloud providers.
- CDN Integration - Provides a standardized interface for administering both DNS zones and CDN distributions across cloud services.
- Credential Resolution Chains - Resolves authentication keys by scanning factory methods, environment variables, and config files in a prioritized fallback order.
- Credential Resolution - Retrieves cloud authentication keys from multiple sources including environment variables and configuration files.
- Interface-Driven Provider Implementations - Enforces a strict set of required methods for all cloud provider implementations to ensure a consistent cross-provider API.
- Cloud Infrastructure - Comprehensive library for managing multiple cloud service providers.
- File Handling - Cloud services library for storage and more.
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