The Cloudify Blog

Matt Jaynes, Founder of DevOps University, wrote a great post on Hacker News, What is Continuous Deployment, in which he points out one of challenges that many people gloss over when they embark on their DevOps journey. In a nutshell, Matt was saying that, “You should get your… Read More

It’s that time of year again for the OpenStack Summit, and the Cloudify team will soon be shipping out to Hong Kong to take part. We’ve got a bunch of exciting announcements to make and a MONSTER giveaway going to one lucky winner at the event. From a new… Read More

Introduction GigaSpaces XAP has lacked an official Cloudify recipe for some time now, and this series of posts will address my efforts to create one. The task of automating the deployment and management of the potentially complex suite of services that XAP represents is a challenge in and of… Read More

In this post we outline a pattern for implementing the Warm Disaster Recovery pattern across two Amazon EC2 regions. Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Accomplishing a suitable disaster recovery strategy is crucial to many enterprises. However, the means to achieve an appropriate level of redundancy is challenging… Read More

Overview Cloudify and Opscode Chef work together to provide the greatest high qualify recipe/cookbook coverage for deployment that is possible.  Cloudify works with Chef by delegating the installation (and potentially startup) phases of recipe lifecycle to Chef for individual services.  Cloudify takes care of full application deployment and coordination,… Read More

There’ve been various discussions in the community on OpenStack Interoperability and Portability. The discussions tend to be centralized around the future of the OpenStack API and whether or not it would make sense to support the AWS API on top of OpenStack to allow for better compatibility with… Read More

Architecting and building a web service in the cloud age is quite simple. Options range from web site generators such as Wix, to Paas providers such as GAE, all the way to the traditional LAMP setup hosted on IaaS that gives you the maximum control and customization power. Read More

Here’s a short post that explains how to install Heat and DevStack on Vagrant # Download and install “(newwindow)Vagrant”:http://downloads.vagrantup.com (1.2.6). # Download an “(newwindow)Ubuntu box”:http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box for the vagrant and place it in your Vagrant folder. # Download this Vagrantfile and place it in your Vagrant folder: #… Read More

OpenStack was first announced three years ago at the OSCON conference in Portland. I remember the first time I heard about the announcement and how it immediately caught my attention. Ever since that day, I have become a strong advocate of the technology. Looking back, I thought that it would… Read More

Devstack is # A great option to install and run an OpenStack cloud on your laptop or inside a VM on a cloud. # Ideal for potential users who want to see what the Dashboard looks like from an admin or user perspective, and OpenStack contributors who wish to… Read More

Peter Chadwick Senior Product Manager – Cloud Infrastructure at SUSE wrote an interesting article arguing  Why OpenStack Will Rule the Enterprise. Chadwick refers to three main points in his arguments: Variety – OpenStack is the only cloud platform that supports every major hypervisor. Familiarity – OpenStack… Read More

Big Data systems by their very nature tend to be…Big.Big in the amount of data, in the number and size of infrastructure behind it, etc. Cloud based infrastructure can be a good fit as a cost effective infrastructure for running those Big Data systems. While this may sound obvious, many… Read More