The Cloudify Blog
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TOSCA’s Important Role in the DICE EU H2020 Project
- By Matej Artač Guest Post,
- July 17, 2018
- DevOps Docker TOSCA
This article was originally posted on the DICE website on June 8, 2018 Within the first open source framework for quality-aware DevOps for Big Data applications – DICE, TOSCA provides the perfect foundation for bridging the world of off-line application modelling and the running instances of this application. Its extensibility enabled automating deployments of complex
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Does intent-based networking require rip-and-replace?
- By Sebastian Grabski,
- July 11, 2018
- Network Automation Networking NFV
Intent-based networking is hitting the headlines lately, mostly due to an intensive marketing campaign by Cisco. Cisco is an absolute behemoth in the networking landscape and we should pay attention to their messages, as sometimes they introduce real game changers like Application-Centric Infrastructure. What is this intent-based networking then? Andrew Lerner from Gartner defines the
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Cloudify Service Binding For Kubernetes
- By DeWayne Filppi,
- July 9, 2018
- Kubernetes MariaDB OpenStack
This is the third post in a series about exploring the integration of Cloudify with Kubernetes via the Service Catalog feature. The first post explored the foundational concepts and set the stage for a project to develop a service broker for Cloudify. The second post described the architecture of the project, and provided a basic capability to list and provision services from and
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Cloudify Plugins Releases: AWSSDK 2.3.3, OpenStack 2.9.2, GCP 1.4.3, Utilities 1.8.0
Below are the latest Cloudify plugin updates: AWSSDK Plugin v2.3.4 v2.3.4 Verifies resources when using use_external_resource. Download the latest release of the Cloudify AWSSDK Plugin, version 2.3.4. For more information, see the changelog, or read the docs. OpenStack Plugin v2.9.2 v2.9.2 Skip stopping hosts that are already in a state Powering Off. Download the latest release of
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Orchestration: Taking Automation to the Next Level
- By Ilan Adler,
- July 2, 2018
- Automation Cloud Orchestration
Automation and Orchestration Back in 2011, Forbes published an article with the headline, “Now Every Company is a Software Company.” What does that have to do with automation? In the years since the article was published, many businesses have started their DevOps transformation, and with it, automation is now an important—if not critical—aspect to every
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Orchestration Is Not a Use Case: The Top 3 Things Orchestration Is Not
- By Oded Nahum,
- June 27, 2018
- Cloud Orchestration Cloudify Hybrid Stack
This article originally appeared on SDxCentral on June 12, 2018. In the early days of cloud computing we used to spend a considerable amount of time educating customers about what cloud is, how to use it, why it’s good, and more importantly, what the cloud is not. The one thing that always resonated with me is that
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5G To The Edge With AT&T: A Fully Orchestrated Open Source Stack
- By Jeremy Hess,
- June 18, 2018
- 5G Edge Computing Serverless
5G is already here. It was first deployed at really large scale at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang and it has proven to be a game changer. In the US, AT&T announced at the beginning of the year that their 5G rollouts will take place by the end of 2018, as have some others.
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Cloudify Plugins Releases: AWSSDK 2.3.3, Azure 1.7.2
Below are the latest Cloudify plugin updates: AWSSDK Plugin v2.3.3 v2.3.3 Support connecting ENI to Security Group via relationships. Download the latest release of the Cloudify AWSDK Plugin, version 2.3.3. For more information, see the changelog, or read the docs. Azure Plugin v1.7.2 v1.7.2 Updates NICs and Data Disks on configure operation. Download the latest release of
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Provisioning and Orchestrating MPLS Layer 3 VPNs With Cloudify
- By Sebastian Grabski,
- June 12, 2018
- Network Automation Networking
This article was originally published by Sebastian on June 4th on his blog, Orchestrated Things. “…can Cloudify be used for MPLS L3 VPN provisioning? Hell YES !!!” MPLS L3 VPNs are present on the market for quite some time. One may think, that is it long enough to consider them as “traditional” VPN technology. It
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The Cloudify Azure Plugin with Azure Stack Support
- By Jeremy Hess,
- June 7, 2018
- Azure Azure Stack Cloudify
While AWS is still seen as the cloud provider to beat, Microsoft has been making real strides in the past few years with Azure. Microsoft recently reported a higher annual run rate than AWS. They are consistently noted as either the number one or number two cloud provider according to different sources. In our own