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Welcome to the KOALA Cloud Manager. These Wiki-Pages can help you with your first steps while using KOALA to work with various cloud services.

Attention: This documentation is mainly from the years 2010/2011. It is in many aspects out of date.

KOALA...

is a software service that helps you working with your Amazon Web Services (AWS) compatible cloud services. The AWS public cloud and private cloud services based on Eucalyptus, Nimbus or OpenNebula are supported. The storage services Google Storage and Host Europe Cloud Storage (that offering is now defunct!) can be used with KOALA too.
runs inside the Google App Engine, AppScale and typhoonAE
is not a marketplace for cloud resources but it helps you working with cloud resources you have already access to
is Open Source and licensed according to the Apache License, Version 2.0
uses boto, a Python interface to Amazon Web Services
uses icons from the Basic Set package from PixelMixer
is successfully checked with the W3C Markup Validation Service as HTML 4.01 Transitional

KOALA stands for Karlsruhe Open Application (for) cLoud Administration.

But the main reason for the name KOALA is, that it's easy to memorize. Furthermore Koalas like Eucalyptus.

Implemented features:

import credentials for Amazon AWS, Eucalyptus, Nimbus and OpenNebula services and infrastructures
switch active region
check availability zones
create and erase security groups and create and erase rules inside security groups
create, attach, detach and erase EBS volumes
create and erase snapshots from EBS volumes
create EBS volumes from snapshots
create and erase keypairs
check images
start, reboot, stop and terminate instances
show console output of instances
allocate, attach, detach and release elastic IP addresses
erase all personal data from the datastore
create image favourites (for AWS)
create and erase S3 buckets
pure S3 mode and S3 mode with more comfort
upload and download S3 keys and change their Access Control List
modify and delete elastic load balancers (ELB)