The Cloudify Blog
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Never Had a Log Like This Before
- By Nir Cohen
- April 17, 2014
- Uncategorized
Today, the large majority of companies use logs and events to perform post analysis (in the best scenario). Many times, they don’t even do that, and logs just lie wasted without anyone doing anything with them. But a good logging and event handling infrastructure, if written and configured… Read More -
Network Automation with NFV on OpenStack
- By Shay Naeh
- April 9, 2014
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As NFV (network function virtualization) becomes trendy more network vendors are working on a solution of how to take their existing investment in network products and make them NFV enabled. The target is that eventually everything will run as virtual software components on commoditized hardware. To… Read More -
Logging and Event Tools to Help You Understand and Heal Stacks
- By Nir Cohen
- March 27, 2014
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This post is going to be a prologue to my next post on how to create logs with structured data to be able to extract and act upon the most relevant information, and eventually even automate these tasks. Building such systems is no trivial task, and to reach that promised… Read More -
Why You SHOULD Want to Use OpenStack
- By Nati Shalom
- March 23, 2014
- Uncategorized
Over the past few weeks I came across various cases where people questioned the maturity of OpenStack and its fit to enterprise customers. The most recent one was a piece called “Enterprises should just ignore OpenStack“, that basically suggested that OpenStack doesn’t really answer any enterprise needs… Read More -
Java_interface_java_base_class_across_versions
- By Barak Merimovich
- March 20, 2014
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width=”100%”— layout: blogpost title: Moving from an interface to a base class across Java versions image: barak.jpg author: Barak Merimovich tags: – Cloud Driver – JClouds – Programming – Cloud Computing — Interfaces are one of the core design… Read More -
Cloud Orchestration with Bare Metal Machines
- By Eli Polonsky
- March 12, 2014
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Enterprise companies tend to use bare metal machines extensively for their mission critical and data intensive applications, as bare metal provides superior performance and I/O over your average virtual machines. In addition, VMs also come with the added issue of noisy neighbors. This is also why many cloud providers have… Read More -
Network Automation and Orchestration with Openstack and Cloudify
- By Nati Shalom
- March 10, 2014
- Network Automation
In my previous post I discussed the evolution of networking in the cloud – from commodity hardware to the cloud, and the need for the virtualization of network functions, and the different drivers for change. In this post I will focus on orchestrating your networking through OpenStack’s… Read More -
Scaling Rules with Cloudify
- By Tamir Korem
- March 6, 2014
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The Cloud The cloud gives you the option to use as many resources as you want, essentially “endless” resources on demand, where you only pay for what you use. In a world where everything is dynamic, and IT environments are constantly changing, this is becoming an ever-growing need. Read More -
From Configuration Management to Cloud Orchestration How Cloudify Integrates with Chef
- By Ron Zavner
- March 4, 2014
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How Cloudify Integrates with Chef There are many common challenges today for your everyday dev and ops tasks: Configuration management Server provisioning Application deployment Monitoring of deployed tiers Auto-scaling In addition to some nice to have functionality, such as multi-region resilience and multi-cloud enablement. This is where known DevOps… Read More -
From simple automation to proactive orchestration
- By Uri Cohen
- February 27, 2014
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Automation as We Know It Today If you haven’t been hiding in a cave in the last year or two, you’ve probably heard the terms devops and infrastructure automation more than once… But even today, infrastructure automation is mostly focused on setup and deployment of complex systems. Read More -
Coding to Various Cloud APIs Using an All encompassing Uber Abstraction Layer
- By Eli Polonsky
- February 26, 2014
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Intro to JClouds JClouds, a Java framework that helps developers use cloud APIs, at its onset, was a one man shop written by Adrian Cole (@adrianfcole) who is a gifted Java programmer and architect, to say the least. It has since been… Read More -
Cloud Automation with Winrm vs ssh
- By Barak Merimovich
- February 24, 2014
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In the Linux world SSH, secure shell, is the de facto standard for remote connectivity and automation for the purpose of logging into a remote machine to install tools and run commands. It’s pretty much ubiquitous, runs across multiple Linux versions and distributions, and every Linux admin worth their salt… Read More