The Carina Environment Manger allows you to automatically deploy, scale and manage the availability of multi-VM application clusters according to policies such as time of day, load-based, service priority, failure events, or custom metrics.

The following are benefits of the Carina project:

• Faster / error-free deployment of multi-tier applications
• Improve application response time through automated scaling based on workload
• Reduce resource consumption by scaling down resources when not needed
• Increased availability through automated re-creation of failed VMs
• Ability to prioritize & differentiate services based on SLAs

The Carina software can be installed in a management VM which users can connect through via a CLI or REST APIs. The installation instructions can be found here.

The usage of features is described here.