Automating Instance Provisioning with CloudForms and Ansible Tower (Video)

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Justin Burdine, Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Red Hat

This video demonstrates how you can take manual tasks and processes and turn them into automation workflows. In this video we utilize Red Hat CloudForms and Ansible Tower to provide an underlying automation and orchestration framework to deliver automation to your IT organization.

The demonstration shows how a user can order a service and have automation provision and deliver the resources while tracking the elements in a ticketing system (ServiceNow).

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Example using Tagging for Displaying Pricing and Quota on Service Dialogs

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John Hardy, Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

 

Introduction

This post explains a solution whereby Red Hat CloudForms is enabled to show back to the users their remaining tenant budget when ordering services via the service catalog. The implementation uses CloudForms taxonomy and custom methods to display service costs, quota, and a message on the Service Dialog screen.

Use-Case

As a user, I wish to be presented the cost of the service I am ordering, along with my current budget and remaining budget when the service is ordered. I would like my budget to be set and maintained at my tenant level.

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Automating CloudForms Appliance Deployment with Ansible

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Adam Goossens, Consultant, Red Hat

Red Hat CloudForms ships as an appliance to simplify deployment as much as possible – a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server with the appropriate software loaded, ready to be configured with a few basic configuration options.

Traditionally, these servers are configured using the command line tool appliance_console. This is a simple, menu-based interface that allows you to configure the core functionality of the appliance and makes it exceptionally easy to do so. Unfortunately, menu-based interfaces don’t lend themselves to being automated easily.

However, there is a solution!

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Ansible Automation inside Red Hat CloudForms (Summary)

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Victor Estival Lopez, Red Hat

This blog post concludes our series on Ansible Automation inside Red Hat CloudForms. We hope that the content and demo videos were able to get you a grasp on how Ansible Automation, the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation framework, adds value to Red Hat CloudForms and extends its capabilities.

 

Red Hat CloudForms natively supports Ansible Automation and eases the deployment of infrastructure and  IT services across clouds. Users can automate multi-cloud management by defining a wide range of policies and processes with no coding or scripting required.

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Debugging Ansible Automation inside Red Hat CloudForms

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Victor Estival Lopez, Red Hat

Debugging might not be one of your favorite things to do, but when your automation fails it is good to know where to look to find information and troubleshoot. In this blog post, we investigate how to make sure Ansible Automation is correctly configured inside CloudForms, and how to troubleshoot issues that might occur when running Ansible Automation. Content for this blog post is based on the knowledge base article published on Red Hat Customer Portal.

 

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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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