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Tech Focus | Learn how Cloudify handles distributed workloads on Kubernetes clusters

By Jonny Rosen,
August 12, 2019
Cloudify Tech Focus

Cloudify recently undertook a substantial project in collaboration with Intel and F5 focussing on containerized workloads on multiple distributed Kubernetes clusters, both on-premise and cloud clusters. Our very own Shay Naeh documented the projected, and created an in-depth summary (including a recorded demo) available now on Medium. Click here to read the full article.

Why Service Orchestration Matters… and Why You Need To Care.

By Jonny Rosen,
August 1, 2019
Cloudify Orchestration Orchestration as a service

The rising demand for services in the cloud calls for a new approach to cloud orchestration. Traditional VM-centric cloud architectures are often rigid and poorly suited for the quick and smooth deployment of new services and technologies. To thrive in a service-oriented market, companies must be able to efficiently orchestrate components such as microservices and […]

ETSI & Cloudify

By Jonny Rosen,
July 4, 2019
Cloudify ETSI NFV

Open-source as a way to drive open standard has been one of the founding concepts behind Cloudify’s strategy since day-one. The speed in which the cloud infrastructure world is evolving is fast leading towards continued fragmentation and changes. Driving open standard in such a world is therefore challenging to say the least. One of the […]

Are TOSCA & Cloud Standardisation Efforts REALLY Stalling?

Alan R. Earls recently wrote an article on TechTarget: TOSCA and other cloud standardization efforts stall where he pointed out the state of TOSCA as well as other cloud standardization efforts: “TOSCA was originally designed as an open standard for formatting templates so tasks, such as cloud resource deployment and orchestration, could be translated into […]

The Importance of the Automation First Approach

One of the main challenges when working on an automation project is writing the automation templates. Each cloud provider has its own template language, which means that you can’t reuse artifacts that were already written by other frameworks. This makes many automation projects substantially longer than they would have been otherwise. This article explores how […]

Is It Time for Open Source SD-WAN?

By Nati Shalom,
June 12, 2019
Open Source SD-WAN

One of the recent SDxCentral posts by Ali Longwell covers the state and need for open-source SD-WAN, providing an interesting read and a great 360 view on the various aspects in which we can consider the need for open-source in the context of SD-WAN, namely: Open source as a DIY alternative to closed SD-WAN: whether there […]

Product Update: Cloudify 4.6

By Jonny Rosen,
June 12, 2019
Cloudify

Cloudify 4.6: New modular service composition, Ansible, and cloud native edge support We’re excited to announce the latest version of Cloudify delivering some important updates; enhancing the multiple pillars needed to support the ever-changing landscape of end-to-end enterprise-grade orchestration: Infrastructure orchestration – setting up infrastructure over any popular IaaS Microservices orchestration – deploying and managing […]

Introducing the New Cloudify Ansible Plugin

By Jonny Rosen,
April 11, 2019
Ansible

Serving as a popular configuration management tool, Ansible is taking over other popular configuration management tools such as Chef and Puppet and has become a popular tool to manage the configuration of many network devices. The motivation behind the Cloudify and Ansible integration follows the logic of an automation-first approach, allowing users to leverage existing […]

Next Generation Orchestration: Multi Domain, Sites, Clouds, Hyper Scale

By Nati Shalom,
April 2, 2019
Edge Computing

The next generation of orchestration is driven mostly by the need for scale and distribution to support the new edge and IOT use cases. This generation of orchestration needs to support not just orchestration of services within a local data center or cloud but needs to reach across multiple sites, regions and domains. Here we’ll […]

Network Automation at the Edge

By Ilan Adler,
March 17, 2019
Network Automation Network Orchestration

A Path to Network Automation As cloud technology wins mainstream acceptance among companies looking to run networks that are efficient, scalable and high quality, the development of software-based technologies, open-source solutions, and public cloud services (like AWS, Azure) are becoming unstoppable. In addition to the growth of public cloud services, many service providers are opting […]