The Cloudify Blog
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Inside Edge Computing
- By Ilan Adler,
- December 24, 2018
- Edge Computing
Inside Edge Computing Ask a dozen technologists what edge computing is, and you’ll get a dozen answers. Each vendor has a different meaning, based on what they already sell, or what they think venture capitalists want to hear. Edge computing is the new cloud: a catch-all buzzword that has been so diluted as to be […]
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Cloudify 4.5 has arrived! Cloud Native Orchestration from Network Core to Edge
- By Jeremy Hess,
- November 19, 2018
- Cloudify Network Orchestration Release
We’re excited to announce our latest version of Cloudify – 4.5! This release comes with quite a few features, integrations, and improvements that focus on intent-based networking and closed-loop orchestration for cloud native and multi-cloud production deployments. With this latest release of Cloudify, organizations can manage their networks from the core to the edge. Version […]
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Cloudify vs. Ansible
- By Ilan Adler,
- November 9, 2018
- Cloud Orchestration Cloudify
Cloudify vs. Ansible – Where Each Works Best Last month, we compared Cloudify with Terraform, HashiCorp’s infrastructure automation tool. This month we will explore some of the strengths and use cases of Cloudify and another widely used automation tool, Red Hat’s Ansible. Cloudify is a TOSCA-compliant full orchestration tool. It’s available as an open-source product […]
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Cloud Native Day Tel Aviv 2018 – The first conference of its kind in Israel!
- By Jeremy Hess,
- November 8, 2018
- Cloud Native Events
That’s a wrap! The first ever Cloud Native Day conference in Israel is now behind us and we had such a great time seeing old friends and making new ones. As you may know, this event started out as OpenStack Day Israel about 6 years ago. From there, the community has grown leaps and bounds, […]
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Terraform vs. Cloudify
- By Ilan Adler,
- October 22, 2018
- Automation Cloud Orchestration
Cloudify vs. Terraform; How they compare There are many tools in the marketplace to perform automation. There are many ways to break down the types of automation, whether it’s imperative versus declarative, or orchestration versus desired configuration state. Orchestration tools are extremely popular for many reasons: they are usually fast to get moving, they deploy […]
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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. – […]
