Part 1 of this series described the manageiq-automate and manageiq-vmdb roles that can be used by a playbook to interact with a CloudForms workflow.
Continue reading “Embedded Ansible – Part 2, Passing Parameters into a Playbook”
In this blog series, we will cover how to integrate Infoblox IPAM with Red Hat CloudForms using Ansible Playbooks. Before we start, let me point you that we already have a detailed blog on CloudForms with Infoblox integration written by John Hardy[1] which has explained how to integrate CloudForms with Infoblox using Ruby scripts.
Now the question is if we already have a detailed blog on this then what new I would bring to this blog?
Continue reading “CloudForms with Infoblox using Ansible Part 1: Prerequisites”
The introduction of Embedded Ansible with CloudForms 4.5 enabled administrators to create CloudForms services that use Ansible playbooks instead of Ruby methods to perform tasks. Successive versions of CloudForms have expanded this capability, and automation developers can now construct complex CloudForms Automate workflows using Ansible playbooks alongside traditional Ruby methods.
Continue reading “Embedded Ansible – Part 1, Built-In Ansible Roles”
The CloudForms team is proud to announce the release of CloudForms 5.0 Beta1. Based on the ManageIQ Ivanchuk release, this release contains several enhancements and bug fixes and is the result of about many months of upstream development.
Some of the notable enhancements include:
For more details and a list of all other improvements see the release notes.
We’d like to encourage all of our customers to download the beta from access.redhat.com and to try it out. Any issues can be reported by opening a case with Red Hat support.
Ansible continues to grow and is the strategic automation engine for Red Hat’s business. Having a solid and constantly improving integration with Ansible is key for CloudForms’ future success.
Ansible Tower Workflows are widely used in by the industry to orchestrate and govern interactions between different playbooks. CloudForms has been able to run Ansible Tower Jobs since its 4.1 release. Starting with CloudForms 4.7, we will expand this support and will be able to utilize Workflows from the Service Catalog.
Continue reading “CloudForms 4.7 – What’s new with Ansible?”
This part will focus on how to create the Custom Button using an Ansible playbook.
CloudForms 4.6 has introduced more options while creating a button. This topic will be discussed in another post.
Continue reading “Ansible Custom Buttons in CloudForms (Part 2 creating the button)”
This series is highlighting the improvements and new capabilities introduced with CloudForms 4.6 about Ansible Custom Buttons.
The Ansible Playbook used in this example will install a user-specified package on the selected virtual machine.
Continue reading “Ansible Custom Buttons in CloudForms (Part 1 configuring the environment)”
We all know that sometimes we need some help with any tool we want to set up, and in CloudForms we are having such a great momentum because we included Ansible Automation Inside as a way to facilitate our users to interact and create custom action in CloudForms using it (as we covered previously on the Ansible Series)
Continue reading “Do you need any help with CloudForms?”
