I think you are looking for Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) [1] which allows you not only to create one node but a clus

I think you are looking for Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) [1] which allows you not only to create one node but a cluster, their drives, network rules, autoscalling etc. There is also another project which is cloud-init [2] that defines an standard way of mounting the initial data, and provision the shh keys. Cloud Formation is aws implementation of this and is quite good. You can create define a template of how your application should be deployed and parameters for the end user like Heroku button. You can check a good example of these technologies on the coreos landing page [4]. [1]: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OASIS_TOSCA http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OASIS_TOSCA https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=tosca https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=... [2]: http://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ http://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ [3]: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/ http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/ [4]: https://coreos.com https://coreos.com