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<h2>About Deltacloud</h2>
<p>Deltacloud provides backward compatibility across versions and long-term stability for scripts, tools and applications. Using single API Deltacloud enables management of resources in different clouds.</p>

<p>Start an instance on an internal cloud, then with the same code start another on EC2 or RHEV-M.</p>
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the API server and drivers necessary for connecting to cloud providers
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<h2>How does Deltacloud work?</h2>
<p>Deltacloud contains a cloud abstraction API. The API works as a wrapper around a large number of clouds, abstracting their differences. For every <a href="/supported-providers.html" rel="tooltip" title="currently supported providers">provider</a> there is a driver "speaking" cloud provider's native API. It frees you from dealing with the particulars of each cloud's API.</p>

<p>Install Deltacloud and start the <strong>deltacloudd</strong> daemon server. You can use your favourite HTTP client to talk to the server using the Deltacloud REST API. Deltacloud even comes with a HTML interface so you can simply use your web browser to control your cloud infrastructure straight out of the box.</p>
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<a class="btn btn-inverse btn-large" style="float: right" href="/install-deltacloud.html">Get Deltacloud</a>

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