The Cloudify Blog
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Continuous Deployment with Architecture and Infrastructure Changes Using Cloudify
- By Ido Berkovitch,
- August 16, 2018
- Continuous Deployment Continuous Integration DevOps
In our recent release of Cloudify 4.4, we made some really solid improvements and added great new features to make the user experience a breeze. Read about them here. One particular enhancement that is quite significant, especially for production deployments, is the Deployment Update feature, which is a built-in workflow that can be run from
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Edge Cloud Service Orchestration with Azure and Azure Stack
- By Jeremy Hess,
- August 8, 2018
- Azure Azure Stack Edge Computing
Introduction Microsoft has grown its Azure offering by leaps and bounds, especially in the past year. In our previous blog post about our Azure and Azure Stack plugins, we pointed out that Microsoft’s cloud service is seen as a definite number two in public cloud, behind Amazon’s AWS, but is quickly gaining among large enterprises.
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Cloudify 4.4 has dropped! Significant security and usability enhancements (and new modular policy management feature preview)
- By Jeremy Hess,
- August 1, 2018
- Cloud Orchestration Cloudify Release
Cloudify 4.4 is here and we’ve got some major security and UX improvements for you! We also have some cool updates regarding our roadmap towards a more modular architecture and configurable closed-loop orchestration. Some of our new features include a new Dry Run capability as well as an Account Lockout mechanism and many more enhancements
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Closed loop orchestration (CLO) with Cloudify
- By Sebastian Grabski,
- July 30, 2018
- Monitoring Network Automation NFV
This post was originally published on Sebastian’s blog, Orchestrated Things, on June 26, 2018. “…the autonomy to IT systems?” When talking to customers, the idea of closed loop orchestration is popping up quite often. Some customers, especially in telco space are putting a lot of focus on it – mostly in the context of NFV.
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VOLTHA, SEBA, OSAM and ONAP with Cloudify for End-to-End Provisioning and Lifecycle Management of Access Devices
- By Shay Naeh,
- July 25, 2018
- Edge Computing Kubernetes Network Automation ONAP
Introduction The industry is pushing to make the access world simple with “Access as a service.” Today, each access vendor has its own implementation and many silos exist on dedicated hardware. The motivation is to introduce an access architecture which is open, that potentially runs on commodity servers and whitebox switches, and is based on
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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