The Cloudify Blog
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Pluggable Monitoring and Closed Loop Orchestration with Cloudify and Nagios
- By Ido Berkovitch & Jeremy Hess,
- August 30, 2018
- DevOps Monitoring Nagios
A few weeks ago, we introduced Cloudify 4.4. As part of our roadmap to making Cloudify more modular and offering users the ability to plug-in their own tools, we now allow you to bring your own policy and monitoring to Cloudify. Test-drive Cloudify’s Multi-Cloud Lab Free! Get Lab This thinking is exactly in line with
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ONAP vs OSM – The Battle for NFV Management and Orchestration Supremacy
- By Ilan Adler,
- August 27, 2018
- ETSI ONAP Orchestration
ONAP vs OSM – Who will win? A major topic of discussion in IT circles these days is about the best way to operate an efficient, scalable, and automated network infrastructure. One of the major challenges is being able to offer high availability services while remaining agile enough to swiftly deploy new services; ongoing operations
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Polyglot Plugin Patterns – Creating Go and Java plugins for Cloudify Pt1
- By DeWayne Filppi,
- August 24, 2018
- Go Java Plugins
For a long time now, I’ve told those that were interested that plugins for Cloudify don’t necessarily have to be written in Python, and then waved my hands about how non-Python plugins could be created. Recently, I was asked from a Go shop whether plugins could be written in Go, and I did my usual
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Putting Your Cloud in Order: Multi-Cloud Governance and Managed Solutions
- By Ilan Adler,
- August 20, 2018
- Governance Multi-Cloud
Cloud governance and cloud management are terms that IT practitioners and leadership are going to be confronted with over the coming years. These concepts are interlinked and encompass a number of areas of concern. Understanding the difference between cloud governance and cloud management and how this difference impacts real-world IT operations requires knowledge of the
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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