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With an aim to develop a telco cloud platform and automate various virtual network functions, KPN partnered with industry orchestration expert Cloudify to automate VNF deployments, demonstrating the importance of rationalizing and automating the instantiation of services, leading to a win of the prestigious Operator Award –… Read More

Your CI/CD pipeline in today’s cloud environment is … well, more than complicated. It can become a major blocker, particularly when dealing with multi-cloud. Watch our CTO’s 10 minute session at ONUG Fall 2019 and learn why existing automation tools alone are not the way forward. Read More

Cloudify recently worked with Aptira to solve the multi-cloud orchestration challenges of one of their clients, a major Australian telecommunications company. The client aimed to deploy and manage Virtual Network Functions (VNF) workloads across a Public Cloud platform (Microsoft Azure) and a Private Cloud platform (… Read More

There are several challenges that come with network functions virtualization (NFV), a method of outlining and operating networking services. As businesses continue to grow and generate more information, it becomes increasingly difficult for company teams to harness the wide range of data produced… Read More

Orchestration can be viewed as part of an automation continuum- even though, of course, all software is essentially automation. Layer upon layer of abstraction has been built to improve productivity and understand complex systems. The cloud revolution is built up these abstractions, going beyond mere application logic to… Read More

In our data-driven world, remarkable growth in network traffic has led to the dramatic expansion of network infrastructure. Manual, script-based legacy network management methods can no longer keep up with the speed of business. As a result, we have seen the emergence of network automation, where physical and… Read More

Cloudify recently undertook a substantial project in collaboration with Intel and F5 focussing on containerized workloads on multiple distributed Kubernetes clusters, both on-premise and cloud clusters. Our very own Shay Naeh documented the projected, and created an in-depth summary… Read More

Open-source as a way to drive open standard has been one of the founding concepts behind Cloudify’s strategy since day-one. The speed in which the cloud infrastructure world is evolving is fast leading towards continued fragmentation and changes. Driving open standard in… Read More

Alan R. Earls recently wrote an article on TechTarget: TOSCA and other cloud standardization efforts stall where he pointed out the state of TOSCA as well as other cloud standardization efforts: “TOSCA was originally designed as an open… Read More

One of the main challenges when working on an automation project is writing the automation templates. Each cloud provider has its own template language, which means that you can’t reuse artifacts that were already written by other frameworks. This makes many automation projects substantially longer than they would… Read More

One of the recent SDxCentral posts by Ali Longwell covers the state and need for open-source SD-WAN, providing an interesting read and a great 360 view on the various aspects in which we can consider the need for open-source in the context… Read More

Serving as a popular configuration management tool, Ansible is taking over other popular configuration management tools such as Chef and Puppet and has become a popular tool to manage the configuration of many network devices. The motivation behind the Cloudify and Ansible integration follows the… Read More