Heat post #1

Bio:
Miguel Grinberg is a Software Developer with a background in web technologies and REST APIs. He is the author of the book "Flask Web Development" from O'Reilly Media, and has a blog at http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com, where he writes about a variety of topics including web development, robotics, photography and the occasional movie review. Miguel is currently a Software Developer with the Rackspace Private Cloud team. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, four kids, two dogs and a cat. Follow @miguelgrinberg on Twitter.

Twitter: @miguelgrinberg
GitHub: https://github.com/miguelgrinberg
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguelgrinberg

Redaction, editing or structure changes by technical writer staff: Yes (let me know if you'd like to make changes)

Desired date: 2014-11-17
Heat then starts a background job that instantiates the resources declared in the template. In this case, that resource is just a compute instance. To query the status of this job, use the following command: