The Cloudify Blog

In the previous articles Running Terraform with Cloudify Part 1, and Running Terraform with Cloudify Part 2 you saw how to run Terraform with Cloudify and deploy an existing Terraform module using Cloudify.  What You’ll Learn… Read More

Terraform is a powerful product for deploying and managing a Cloud infrastructure which supports hundreds of different providers and services. Managing multiple modules and multiple versions of modules can get overwhelming without some type of a central system for managing deployment. In this tutorial, we will discuss one way to… Read More

DevOps is not a technology but rather an organizational culture that combines the different functional roles of development and operations into one team to improve communication and shared responsibility for quality. Understanding DevOps Automation Automation means that specific tasks are built into computerized applications for easy, quick, and cost-effective use. Read More

Continuous integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are two important DevOps practices that help move the software development process forward. However, there is a gap between CI/CD and post-deployment monitoring and management known as Day-2-operations. Day 2 Operations is the practice of managing your production systems in the same… Read More

Development teams face several challenges in today’s world when delivering high-performing applications. It is even harder when they have to make deployments to IT fast and efficiently. To achieve the best results, they need efficient and effective test environments.  A test environment is any platform where a new software undergoes… Read More

March 3, 2022 Version 6.3.1 can be deployed as a new installation, as an in-place update over a 5.2.x/6.x.x Cloudify manager and as an upgrade version for any supported previous Cloudify release. See the upgrade section for more details. 6.3.1 New Functionality and ImprovementsNew FunctionalityOther Corrections, Fixes6.3 New Functionality… Read More

Cloudify Provides DevOps Engineers a Free Terraform UI Experience, Enabling Seamless, Automated Import and Management of Unlimited Terraform Modules. Cloudify’s seamless integration with Terraform enables teams to automate, deploy, manage, and scale multiple Terraform modules for free, with option to extend Terraform environments to Ansible, Kubernetes, and other DevOps tools. Read More

The latest 6.4 release of Cloudify makes it easier than ever to upload your existing Terraform modules into Cloudify. This article will walk you through the simple deployment of an AWS EC2 instance using this improved user experience. You will learn how Cloudify can take existing Terraform and automatically turn… Read More

In the previous two posts, we discussed how to run Terraform on Cloudify Manager using different options, how to create a blueprint and make it generic. In this article, we will focus on how to provision the Kubernetes cluster (EKS). https://medium.com/@alexmolev/running-terraform-with-cloudify-ed3e998ae73d https://medium.com/@alexmolev/running-terraform-with-cloudify-part-2-5279e70374ff What you’ll learn In this article,… Read More

Cloudify Blueprint is a YAML file with definitions of resources and connections between them, the syntax is based on the TOSCA  specification (topology orchestration specification for cloud applications).  It is best suited to  enable multi-domain service orchestration based on Ansible, Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, Azure ARM, Kubernetes Helm and so… Read More

As the pandemic drives enterprise digital transformation, an abundance of funding is being thrown at startups with a plan to support the process. It’s ushering in a new wave of DevOps automation, and in this post I’ll share a few predictions that might shape the market in the year ahead. Read More

There’s no longer any doubt: DevOps is the way of the future. No one can deny the benefits of automation to organizations of every size and type. But when it comes time to reap those benefits, actually implementing automation can be a costly nightmare. This is especially true in companies… Read More