The Cloudify Blog
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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
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Orchestration Is Not a Use Case: The Top 3 Things Orchestration Is Not
- By Oded Nahum,
- June 27, 2018
- Cloud Orchestration Cloudify Hybrid Stack
This article originally appeared on SDxCentral on June 12, 2018. In the early days of cloud computing we used to spend a considerable amount of time educating customers about what cloud is, how to use it, why it’s good, and more importantly, what the cloud is not. The one thing that always resonated with me is that
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5G To The Edge With AT&T: A Fully Orchestrated Open Source Stack
- By Jeremy Hess,
- June 18, 2018
- 5G Edge Computing Serverless
5G is already here. It was first deployed at really large scale at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang and it has proven to be a game changer. In the US, AT&T announced at the beginning of the year that their 5G rollouts will take place by the end of 2018, as have some others.