Author: Victor Estival Lopez

Victor Estival, Red Hat Technical Marketing Engineer for the Red Hat Management BU, joined Open Source communities a long time ago, participating in different associated projects. He has been working several years on traditional Unix systems as a Consultant and as an Architect, working with IBM Power Servers and AIX for more than 7 years, and back in 2010 he changed his area of expertise to Virtualization and Cloud environments. Since then he has been helping organizations in their Digital Transformation, collaborating in the design and architecture on several Private and Public clouds working in a System Integrator

CloudForms in AWS Summary and recap

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Laurent Domb, Red Hat

Victor Estival Lopez, Red Hat

For the last few posts Laurent Domb has been explaining how to squeeze CloudForms and AWS integration by teaching you how to:

  • Upload the CF images to AWS
  • Create all the needed config files in AWS
  • Deploy CF on AWS
  • Configure the new in 4.6 SmartState Analysis (SSA)
  • Use that SSA to add a compliance policy to an instance
  • Use AWS authentication in CF

 

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Please let us know what are your thoughts and which other series would you like to read in the blog

Multi-tier Application Deployment using Ansible and CloudForms (Video)

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Victor Estival Lopez, Red Hat

This article is a follow up on our previous blog post VMware provisioning example using Ansible, where we deployed a simple virtual machine on VMware using Ansible from the CloudForms service catalog. In this week’s demonstration, we go a step further and provision a multi-tier application on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Once provisioned, the application lifecycle, as well as all day 2 operations are performed from Red Hat CloudForms.

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Build your Software Defined Data Center with Red Hat CloudForms and OpenStack

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Victor Estival Lopez, Red Hat

A few days ago, Michele Naldini posted a series on the Red Hat Developer Blog about how to build a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) using Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

Red Hat CloudForms allows to more quickly deploy and scale Red Hat OpenStack Platform (also known as OSP) private clouds, combine existing IT infrastructure investments, and federate public cloud deployments. This series includes both background information and hands-on tips to implement a full SDDC in practice.

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My First Ansible Control Action (Video)

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Victor Estival Lopez, Red Hat

With this short video, we continue our series based on Red Hat Knowledge Base articles exploring how to take advantage of Ansible Automation inside Red Hat CloudForms. This post is a follow-up of our previous My First Ansible Service article.

As a summary, what we do in this video is to create a control policy that checks if the VM CPU or memory size has changed, and if so, resets the size to 1 CPU and 1GB automatically.

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