Tag: Management

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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Container Management with CloudForms – Service Health

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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.

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Container Management with CloudForms – Operational Efficiency

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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.

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Container Management with CloudForms

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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.

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