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.

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

Posted on: November 28, 2017November 28, 2017

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.

Implementing Continuous Integration for CloudForms using Git and Travis

Posted on: November 24, 2017November 24, 2017

Victor Estival Lopez, Red Hat

Christian Jung recently posted another interesting article as a follow-up on Best Practice Recommendations for Automate. This time, he focuses on setting up Continuous Integration for Red Hat CloudForms.

VMware Provisioning Example using Ansible (Video)

Posted on: November 21, 2017November 21, 2017

Victor Estival Lopez, Red Hat

In our previous post, we demonstrated how to create a basic Ansible Service and provision it from Red Hat CloudForms Service Catalog. In this post, we demonstrate how we can deploy a VMware virtual machine using an Ansible Playbook.

CMDB Integration Architecture Examples for CloudForms

Posted on: November 16, 2017November 16, 2017

John Hardy, Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

Introduction

This document is to position two different types of integration with a CMDB and Red Hat CloudForms.

We discuss the use of HP uCMDB because it supports both types of integration but also other CMDBs are available such as Service-Now.

The two types of integration are known as;

Pull – Where by the information/data is collected (Pulled) by the CMDB from the end points. CMDB Server initiated.

Push – Where by the information/data is sent (Pushed) to the CMDB server by the end point. Endpoint initiated.

Other CMDB servers may not support a PULL approach at which point you have only the PULL solution as the only option.

We shall now dive deep into each integration type.

Continue reading “CMDB Integration Architecture Examples for CloudForms”

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

Posted on: November 14, 2017November 14, 2017

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.

My First Ansible Playbook Button (Video)

Posted on: November 8, 2017November 8, 2017

Victor Estival Lopez, Red Hat

This is a follow up to the Ansible Series with a new video that shows how to create a button that executes an Ansible Service. In this post, we re-use the same Ansible Service that we created in our previous post: My First Ansible Control Action.

CloudForms Service Bundle creation using VM Provisioning and Ansible Tower automation job

Posted on: November 2, 2017November 2, 2017

Peter McGowan, Red Hat

Service catalog bundles are a really useful CloudForms feature that enable us to mix and match various existing service catalog items together to form bundles of tasks.

One of the more useful examples of a bundle is to create a new VM, and then run an Ansible Tower job template on the resulting VM to configure it with an application role. If we have an Ansible Tower server added to our CloudForms installation as an automation provider, this is quite simple. We described the procedure to configure an Ansible Tower provider in CloudForms as part of our previous series on Ansible Tower integration in CloudForms 4.1.

Best Practice Recommendations for Automate

Posted on: October 31, 2017

Victor Estival Lopez, Red Hat

Few days ago one of our fellows, Christian Jung, published a very good article explaining best practices while coding Ruby code inside Red Hat CloudForms.

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