Today, we are formally introducing the GrokThis.net "VPS Cloud" with the official deployment of the Annelidous Cloud Infrastructure Interface (ACII).  The ACII is an application programming interface (API) by which developers may control virtual machines running on the GrokThis.net VPS Cloud.  The ACII is immediately available to all GrokVPS and VPS Village customers.

In the coming months, we will be extending and enhancing this API, and have plans to support industry standard APIs as they become available.  At this time, the ACII API allows developers to obtain a list of available virtual machines, manage and control virtual machines by issue shutdown, reboot, rescue, and boot commands.  Very shortly, this API will also allow the creation of new virtual machines.

At this time a utility billing model is not yet available, but the availability of utility billing is expected for Summer 2009.

At this time, an example client script in Perl has been posted:
Download Perl Example


The GrokThis.net VPS Cloud is powered by Annelidous, a free software cloud infrastructure management solution developed internally at GrokThis.net and released to the community under the AGPLv3 license.