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.

Container Management with CloudForms – Financial Management

Posted on: October 25, 2017October 25, 2017

Jerome Marc, Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat

This blog is part 5 of our series on Container Management with CloudForms.

In this last post, we focus on financial management of container environments for both chargeback and for optimizing infrastructure resource usage and spending.

Container Management with CloudForms – Security & Compliance

Posted on: October 18, 2017October 18, 2017

Jerome Marc, Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat

This blog is part 4 of our series on Container Management with CloudForms.

This blog post focuses on the security and compliance aspects of managing containerized environments.

Container Management with CloudForms – Service Health

Posted on: October 11, 2017

Jerome Marc, Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat

This blog is part 3 of our series on Container Management with CloudForms.

A second area of concern identified when managing a containerized environment is service health. We need to operate our containers with good performance, reliability, and ensure high enough utilization ratios. In this post, we focus on the container based infrastructure, its on-going resource consumption, and how we can monitor and optimize its health.

Container Management with CloudForms – Operational Efficiency

Posted on: October 4, 2017

Jerome Marc, Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat

This blog is part 2 of our series on Container Management with CloudForms.

In this blog, we look how the operations team can manage container environments and ensures the workload runs securely and efficiently. This includes the containers themselves, but also the underlying infrastructure. Operators need to ensure resources at all layers of the stack are optimized to provide the highest level of service for the container workload.

Container Management with CloudForms

Posted on: September 27, 2017April 3, 2018

Jerome Marc, Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat

Containers have rapidly evolved from being used for development and testing to production. Today, many vendors provide container products supporting enterprise IT production workloads. Red Hat offers OpenShift, an open source container platform based on Kubernetes.

The promise of containers includes greater cross-cloud workload portability, better support for microservices and faster business innovation through the ability to support CI/CD methodologies for rapidly launching new functionality. By pairing containers and CI/CD with public/private hybrid cloud infrastructure, enterprise IT teams expect to better match infrastructure spending to workload performance while enabling end user developers self-service and agility.

Launch Ansible Playbooks from CloudForms REST API (Video)

Posted on: September 22, 2017

Victor Estival Lopez, Red Hat

In this article, we continue the Ansible Series with a new video that shows how we can execute an Ansible playbook from the CloudForms REST API.

In this video, we are using Postman which is a REST API testing framework. Of course you can use any tool you are comfortable with e.g. CURL, Ruby, Python or anything that can execute REST API calls.

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