CloudForms on AWS Part 1 (Series)

Posted on: March 22, 2018March 22, 2018

Laurent Domb, Red Hat

Ever wondered what CloudForms can do for you in AWS? The next few blog posts will walk you through step by step how to upload the CloudForms image to AWS, how to assign the correct policies and roles and how to configure it correctly so it can discover your environment. Part 1 is dedicated to the import and configuration of the CloudForms image.

With the release of CloudForms 4.6 you also have the ability to scan instances in AWS. These blog series will show you how this can be achieved:

Announcing General Availability of Red Hat CloudForms 4.6

Posted on: March 1, 2018March 2, 2018

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Today marks the general availability of Red Hat CloudForms 4.6, as announced in the recent Press Release. One of the key highlights of the release is the introduction of Lenovo XClarity as the first physical infrastructure provider, enabling CloudForms to go beyond hybrid cloud management and manage hybrid infrastructure.

CloudForms Database High Availability Explained

Posted on: February 23, 2018

Giovanni Fontana, Consultant, Red Hat

In this article, we describe how High Availability (HA) works natively in Red Hat CloudForms. The mechanism uses PostgreSQL feature, and does not require external tools like Virtual IP (VIP), HAProxy, or Load Balancer. We will use a two-node active/passive architecture as an example to investigate what is happening when failover occurs.

Automating Instance Provisioning with CloudForms and Ansible Tower (Video)

Posted on: February 13, 2018February 13, 2018

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).

Example using Tagging for Displaying Pricing and Quota on Service Dialogs

Posted on: February 7, 2018

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.

Automating CloudForms Appliance Deployment with Ansible

Posted on: January 24, 2018January 24, 2018

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!

My First Contribution to ManageIQ

Posted on: January 12, 2018

Imaanpreet Kaur, Associate Technical Support Engineer, Red Hat

In this blog post, I am going to share my experience on how I made my first contribution to ManageIQ, the upstream open source project for Red Hat CloudForms. The post explains how I encountered and investigated an issue, and finally fixed it thereby sending my first “Pull Request” to ManageIQ repository.

Red Hat CloudForms – 2017 in Review

Posted on: December 19, 2017December 19, 2017

Jerome Marc, Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat

Ansible Automation inside Red Hat CloudForms (Summary)

Posted on: December 13, 2017December 13, 2017

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.

Debugging Ansible Automation inside Red Hat CloudForms

Posted on: December 7, 2017

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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