The Cloudify Blog
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Cloudify Plugins Release: Azure, Kubernetes, Utilities, AWS SDK
- By Sharone Zitzman,
- May 10, 2018
- AWS Azure Kubernetes Plugins Release
Azure Plugin v1.6.1 Download the latest release of the Cloudify Azure Plugin, version 1.6.1. This version of the Azure plugin now supports the Azure Stack – so check it out! It also addresses a bug handling missing headers in deleted resource groups. For more information, see the changelog, or read the docs. See this blueprint example to deploy a
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Cloud-Native VNFs: What’s All the Fuss About?
- By Nati Shalom,
- May 9, 2018
- NFV VNF VNF Management
The original post was published on Jan 17, 2017 on WirelessWeek. Preface While this post is already over a year old, the lessons are still very much relevant in the current climate. Network Functions are still undergoing the transformation from physical appliances to virtual applications and more telcos and CSPs are recognizing the importance of
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A Look At Cloudify’s Advanced Security Features From SSL To Secrets And More
- By Ido Berkovitch & Jeremy Hess,
- May 2, 2018
- Cloud Orchestration Security
Cloudify was architected with security at top of mind and designed for real world production environments and the demanding workloads of our clients. However, to ensure editorial accuracy, when we refer to security in this post, we are actually referring to the internal workings of Cloudify Manager and the feature set that ensures enhanced security
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How to Use Cloudify’s Deployment Proxy to Pass Parameters Between Deployments and More
- By Sebastian Grabski,
- April 25, 2018
- NFV VNF
This post originally appeared in Sebastian’s personal blog at this link. What happens if you need to service chain VNF’s and you need to pass parameters between VNF deployments? This question looks a bit trivial, but sometimes it may cause users a bit of a headache. Why? Because if you’re, for example, service chaining a
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Cloudify Partners With Boutique Cloud Services Firm GRTH
- By Jeremy Hess,
- April 23, 2018
- Cloudify Multi-Cloud
We are excited to announce a new partnership with boutique Israeli cloud services firm GRTH. The team at GRTH specializes in assisting companies with their digital transformation from traditional IT to the cloud and provides end-to-end solutions to its customers at both the business and technological levels. With this alliance, Cloudify and GRTH will work
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Provisioning Cloudify Services With Kubernetes
- By DeWayne Filppi,
- April 17, 2018
- Kubernetes REST API
This post is a continuation of my previous post about integrating Cloudify via the Kubernetes service broker extension. That post laid out a plan to essentially proxy Cloudify blueprints from Kubernetes using the service brokerage mechanism. To recap, the service brokerage extension in Kubernetes enables the consumption of services external to Kubernetes in a native way. This
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Our Approach to Resource Governance and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- By Inbal Amrani & Tali Sela,
- April 4, 2018
- Access Control RBAC Security
One of the main tasks of an orchestrator is to provide its users balance between flexibility and control. The flexibility is required to manage a large variety of applications, services, and processes without forcing changes on them. The control is mandatory as the orchestrator lives in a complex environment where many components, and sometimes users,
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Cloudify Support For Helm – The Kubernetes Package Manager
- By Shay Naeh,
- March 29, 2018
- Cloud Native Kubernetes
Introduction Package management is an important aspect in any large system that ensures packages are installed, upgraded, configured, uninstalled, etc in a consistent manner. It is only natural that Kubernetes would require its own package manager. And Helm has taken the proverbial helm on this one. Now, in order to give users a Kubernetes-native experience
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The All-New Cloudify Manager RPM For Simple Manager Install
- By Pavel Brodsky,
- March 20, 2018
- Cloudify
Cloudify Manager is a pretty complex piece of software consisting of over a dozen open source services. These services, such as Nginx, InfluxDB, and PostgreSQL, are all required components to have a properly functioning Cloudify Manager. Feel free to read more about Cloudify’s architecture. The Need Cloudify previously required a slow and cumbersome bootstrap method
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Cloudify 4.3 Has Shipped! Improving Ease of Use, Resource Governance, and Containerization
- By Jeremy Hess,
- March 13, 2018
- Cloudify Kubernetes Security
We’re delighted to announce that we have shipped Cloudify 4.3! This iteration of Cloudify brings users two new offline install methods that will greatly simplify your Cloudify installation experience. We now have a single RPM archive for RHEL/CentOS 7.4 and a new Docker image both with Cloudify Manager and all dependencies, as well as plugin