Pacemaker (software)

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Pacemaker
Initial release2004
Stable release
3.0.1 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 7 August 2025;4 months ago (7 August 2025)
Repository github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker
Written in C
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Group communication system
License GNU General Public License Version 2 [2]
Website www.clusterlabs.org/pacemaker/

Pacemaker is an open-source high availability resource manager software used on computer clusters since 2004. Until about 2007, it was part of the Linux-HA project, then was split out to be its own project. [3]

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It implements several APIs for controlling resources, but its preferred API for this purpose is the Open Cluster Framework resource agent API.

Pacemaker is generally used with Corosync Cluster engine or Linux-HA Heartbeat.

See also

References

  1. "Release 3.0.1". 7 August 2025. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
  2. "Pacemaker Licence". Github. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  3. "Project History". ClusterLabs. Archived from the original on 2017-05-03. Retrieved 30 August 2019.