The Cloudify Blog
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The future of network automation & orchestration
- By Sebastian Grabski,
- October 18, 2018
- Network Automation Network Orchestration SD-WAN
This post was originally published Aug 11 on Sebastian Grabski’s blog Orchestrated Things “Networks as we know them, are going to stay like that for quite some time” Once in a while, networking world is being shaken by the new “shiny object” which supposed to solve networking pains and make its operation silly stupid. The
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Network and Edge Automation with Cloudify
- By Nati Shalom,
- October 11, 2018
- Edge Computing Network Automation NFV
Cloudify is often used to automate and manage network services. We have previously discussed topics such as Network Automation, Edge Networking, Service Chaining, and, most recently, Intent-Based Networking. Watch our upcoming Edge Computing webinar with Mirantis! Register Now In this post, we will go through the core concepts of network automation and how to
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Intent Based Networking showcase: VPN service
- By Sebastian Grabski,
- October 4, 2018
- Network Automation Networking NFV
This post was originally published Aug 29 on Sebastian Grabski’s blog Orchestrated Things “…seeing is believing, isn’t it?” Intent Based Networking is one of my favorite topics, especially due to fact that it embraces the power of proper orchestration and automation. I covered already “declarative networking” where I presented the importance of orchestration DSL in
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Networking as Code
- By Ilan Adler,
- September 27, 2018
- Network Automation Network Orchestration
The Network as Code These days, teams like DevOps, NetDevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and Networking as Code are being used in marketing materials everywhere. But what a lot of people don’t realize is that these IT concepts are already a big part of network operations. They will likely become part of the future for any
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Cloudify Plugins Releases: OpenStack 2.11.0, Utilities 1.9.4, Kubernetes 2.3.2
OpenStack Plugin v2.11.0 2.11.0: – Ensure deletion of resources that were created under a create_if_missing condition. – Check for network ID provided as part of port node property. – Add support for static routes – Add runtime properties for ipv4 and ipv6 addresses Download the latest release of the Cloudify OpenStack Plugin, version 2.11.0. For
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Agentless Auto-Healing Of VMs in Cloudify
- By DeWayne Filppi,
- September 20, 2018
- Auto Healing Cloudify Plugins
One of Cloudify Manager’s distinctive features is the ability to perform automated day 2+ operational tasks. These typically boil down to analyzing an event stream produced by agents, and reacting by running workflows. Auto-healing is one such task. A metric is identified as a trigger, and when it fails to be delivered to the manager
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Cloudify Plugins Releases: AWSSDK 2.5.0, OpenStack 2.11.0, Azure 2.1.0, Utilities 1.9.2, Libvirt 0.5.0
Below are the latest Cloudify plugin updates: AWSSDK Plugin v2.5.0 2.5.0: – New behavior for external resources in relationships. – New + External = Perform Op (Current Behavior) – External + External = No Op (Current Behavior) – External + New = Op (Added New Behavior) – Verify instances added to ELB on assoc. –
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70% of NFV and Digital Transformation Projects Fail: Cloudify’s 5 Key Lessons to Success
- By Nati Shalom,
- September 6, 2018
- Network Orchestration NFV SD-WAN
Network functions virtualization (AKA NFV) has been around for couple of years now, and I’ve recently seen a growing number of posts and articles that try to declare victory or failure of NFV, as well as point out some of the challenges behind NFV adoption. I would start by saying that there seems to be
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Polyglot Plugin Patterns – Creating Go and Java plugins for Cloudify Pt2
- By DeWayne Filppi,
- September 5, 2018
- Go Java Plugins
In a previous post, I discussed a general approach to writing Cloudify plugins in languages other than Python. I got as far as discussing the implementation of an example Go plugin, but stopped short of describing a Java plugin, which is the topic of this post. I encourage you to read the previous post for context, as this
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Terraform vs Kubernetes
- By Ilan Adler,
- September 3, 2018
- Automation Kubernetes Orchestration
Scaling On-Demand Apps with Terraform and Kubernetes One constant about technology is that nothing is constant: everything changes all the time. Once ubiquitous, monolithic systems gave way to service-oriented architectures; now, they are starting to yield to microservices. Scalability is the main driver of the change, but there are other factors at work as well.