The Cloudify Blog
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Next Generation Orchestration: Multi Domain, Sites, Clouds, Hyper Scale
- By Nati Shalom,
- April 2, 2019
- Edge Computing
The next generation of orchestration is driven mostly by the need for scale and distribution to support the new edge and IOT use cases. This generation of orchestration needs to support not just orchestration of services within a local data center or cloud but needs to reach across multiple sites, regions and domains. Here we’ll […]
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Network Automation at the Edge
- By Ilan Adler,
- March 17, 2019
- Network Automation Network Orchestration
A Path to Network Automation As cloud technology wins mainstream acceptance among companies looking to run networks that are efficient, scalable and high quality, the development of software-based technologies, open-source solutions, and public cloud services (like AWS, Azure) are becoming unstoppable. In addition to the growth of public cloud services, many service providers are opting […]
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Unlocking Different SD-WAN Solutions with Open Orchestration
- By Nati Shalom,
- February 20, 2019
- SD-WAN
SD-WAN simplifies the management and operation of a WAN by decoupling (separating) the networking hardware from its control mechanism. This concept is similar to how software-defined networking implements virtualization technology to improve data center management and operation.[1] Having said that, the proprietary nature that many of the current SD-WAN solutions take to manage their network, […]
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Predictions on Open Source, Orchestration and Network Automation for 2019
- By Nati Shalom,
- January 24, 2019
- Edge Computing Kubernetes NFV Orchestration
I wasn’t planning on writing my own predictions this year – it just so happens that I was asked to respond to future-looking questions as part of an RFI response. – and I thought that the initial conclusions from this exercise were worth sharing. My hope is to use this post to spark an open […]
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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 […]
