The Cloudify Blog
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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. – […]
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70% of NFV and Digital Transformation Projects Fail: Cloudify’s 5 Key Lessons to Success
- By Nati Shalom,
- September 6, 2018
- Network Orchestration NFV SD-WAN
Network functions virtualization (AKA NFV) has been around for couple of years now, and I’ve recently seen a growing number of posts and articles that try to declare victory or failure of NFV, as well as point out some of the challenges behind NFV adoption. I would start by saying that there seems to be […]
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Polyglot Plugin Patterns – Creating Go and Java plugins for Cloudify Pt2
- By DeWayne Filppi,
- September 5, 2018
- Go Java Plugins
In a previous post, I discussed a general approach to writing Cloudify plugins in languages other than Python. I got as far as discussing the implementation of an example Go plugin, but stopped short of describing a Java plugin, which is the topic of this post. I encourage you to read the previous post for context, as this […]
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Terraform vs Kubernetes
- By Ilan Adler,
- September 3, 2018
- Automation Kubernetes Orchestration
Scaling On-Demand Apps with Terraform and Kubernetes One constant about technology is that nothing is constant: everything changes all the time. Once ubiquitous, monolithic systems gave way to service-oriented architectures; now, they are starting to yield to microservices. Scalability is the main driver of the change, but there are other factors at work as well. […]
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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 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 […]
