The Cloudify Blog

For those in the dark, Hybrid Cloud refers to a ‘mixed bag’ of computing, storage and service environments consisting of both private and public cloud services (think AWS, Azure and the like) alongside on-premises infrastructure- with orchestration attached to various platforms being used.  But how much do you know… Read More

Stating that 2020 has been challenging feels like an understatement. Nobody anticipated COVID and it has certainly taken its toll. No one really knows how long we will continue to work from home, shop primarily online, and continue to avoid travel. What does remain clear though is that the ‘gold… Read More

The Need for Automation at Scale: The use cases for automation have evolved over the years. From automating the configuration management of a relatively static data center on a single machine, to automating the entire infrastructure stack across many sites and even edge devices. According a… Read More

YAML is a human readable serialization language. Recently there has been an increase in YAML usage for different DevOp tools. Making it easier to define infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline. Our very own software engineer, Alex Molev, lays out  step-by-step how to develop autocompletion and validation for YAML files. Plus, some… Read More

We are excited to announce that Cloudify has been selected for an Intel®️ Network Builders Award. We proudly take our place on the Intel®️ Leaders Board, and are particularly honored to be the only startup to achieve such an accolade. Cloudify has been recognized by Intel®️s Network Builders Winners’ Circle… Read More

Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems. Running Supervisor, as support, with one’s application is a great way to boost security and provide lightweight containers. Our very own software engineer, Mohammed AbuAisha  , goes into detail… Read More

Cloudify recently announced its 5.1 release, marking a major milestone in our strategy to position Cloudify up the stack and value chain, as a service-orchestration. Described in the announcement: “Cloudify 5.1 marks the rise of a new generation of the Cloudify platform,… Read More

Github actions is one of the most popular CI/CD tools in the market today. Integrating this tool with a preferred platform can pave the way for seamless orchestration, so why not take advantage of some of the best resources available?! Our very own software engineer,Issac Shabtay, lays out a  comprehensive… Read More

Helm is a tool that streamlines the installation and management of Kubernetes applications.- think of it like an apt/yum/homebrew for Kubernetes. It renders templates and communicates with the Kubernetes API, running on laptop, CI/CD, or wherever you want it to run. Yet did you know that it’s capable… Read More

A deep dive on remote execution, its tools, why it’s needed, and how to actually make the best use of it. Featuring the Fabric plugin. Read More

VMWare vRealize Automation (vRA) promises a streamlined automation platform for the provisioning of infrastructure and workloads on multiple hypervisors and the major cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP etc..  It integrates with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet, and provisions from a centralized catalog of blueprints.  All… Read More

It’s time to take another deep dive into CI/CD, Jenkins and Cloudify – this time with a focus on CircleCI and GitActions. In his previous article, our very own DevOps expert Isaac Shabtay introduced Jenkins’ plugin for Cloudify from a technical standpoint — a plugin that… Read More