Why is there 2 Eucalyptus command sets?

Question

Does anyone know why there is two command sets for working with EE Cloud - their syntaxes are:

euca-command-subcommand and euform-command-subcommand ?

The have partially the same commands, so I suppose there are different use cases for them ?

Thank you Rainer

Answer 1

euca-* commands generally relate to the EC2 service.

There are other prefixes for other AWS (compatible) services:

• euare-* : identity and access management
• euform-* : cloudformation
• eulb-* : elastic load balancing
• euscale-* : auto scaling
• euwatch-* : cloudwatch

Euca2ools documentation:

http://docs.hpcloud.com/eucalyptus/4.2.2/#euca2ools-guide/index.html