The Cloudify Blog

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… Read More

The Network as Code These days, teams like DevOps, NetDevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and Networking as Code are being used in marketing materials everywhere. But what a lot of people don’t realize is that these IT concepts are already a big part of network operations. Read More

OpenStack Plugin v2.11.0 2.11.0: – Ensure deletion of resources that were created under a create_if_missing condition. – Check for network ID provided as part of port node property. – Add support for static routes – Add runtime properties for ipv4 and ipv6 addresses Download the… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More