Belgian startup ComodIT recently released Synapse Agent, a new open source tool designed to make it easier to manage different types of cloud instances. According to the company, Synapse is a “universal API for remote system administration” that lets users, mainly devops pros, manage multiple cloud hosts from one command line interface that uses a REST-based API.

ComodIT CEO Daniel Bartz said “It brings together the features of configuration management and orchestration in a lightweight framework.” The tool was developed using Python and leverages the advanced messaging queueing protocol (AMQP) for messaging. The code for the project was posted to Github on Tuesday.

According to Bartz, Synapse Agent competes with tools like MCollective and Salt. MCollective serves as the bones of building server orchestration or parallel job execution systems. It allows real-time discovery of network resources and can choose which resources to affect. How the resources are selected is based on configuration data from leading systems management platforms such as Puppet. Salt is an open source tool to manage infrastructure. It has the ability to manage thousands of servers and can begin running within minutes.

ComodIT plans to talk about its IT-as-a-Service suite at Structure Europe, which will be hosted by GigaOM in Amsterdam on October 16 and 17. This convention will feature some of the leading figures in cloud computing and Infrastructure. Topics such as how the business world is beginning to gravitate toward the cloud will be discussed.