The Cloudify Blog

Cloudify was architected with security at top of mind and designed for real world production environments and the demanding workloads of our clients. However, to ensure editorial accuracy, when we refer to security in this post, we are actually referring to the internal workings of Cloudify Manager and… Read More

This post originally appeared in Sebastian’s personal blog at this link. What happens if you need to service chain VNF’s and you need to pass parameters between VNF deployments? This question looks a bit trivial, but sometimes it may cause users a bit of a headache. Why?… Read More

We are excited to announce a new partnership with boutique Israeli cloud services firm GRTH. The team at GRTH specializes in assisting companies with their digital transformation from traditional IT to the cloud and provides end-to-end solutions to its customers at both the business and technological levels. With this… Read More

This post is a continuation of my previous post about integrating Cloudify via the Kubernetes service broker extension. That post laid out a plan to essentially proxy Cloudify blueprints from Kubernetes using the service brokerage mechanism. To recap, the service brokerage extension in Kubernetes enables the consumption of services external… Read More

One of the main tasks of an orchestrator is to provide its users balance between flexibility and control. The flexibility is required to manage a large variety of applications, services, and processes without forcing changes on them. The control is mandatory as the orchestrator lives in a complex environment where… Read More

Introduction Package management is an important aspect in any large system that ensures packages are installed, upgraded, configured, uninstalled, etc in a consistent manner. It is only natural that Kubernetes would require its own package manager. And Helm has taken the proverbial helm on this… Read More

Cloudify Manager is a pretty complex piece of software consisting of over a dozen open source services. These services, such as Nginx, InfluxDB, and PostgreSQL, are all required components to have a properly functioning Cloudify Manager. Feel free to read more about Cloudify’s architecture… Read More

We’re delighted to announce that we have shipped Cloudify 4.3! This iteration of Cloudify brings users two new offline install methods that will greatly simplify your Cloudify installation experience. We now have a single RPM archive for RHEL/CentOS 7.4 and a new Docker… Read More

This post is part 1 of a 3-part series. You can find part 2 and part 3 linked here.Kubernetes is famously known for having an opinionated architecture; most notably container orientation, networking idioms, and declarative orchestration. As Kubernetes development has progressed, an increasing number of features have… Read More

Sometimes, when creating complex applications, we might need dynamic allocation of static resources. To explain what I mean by this, it’s best to look at an example. Single instance example Let’s say we have a proprietary IP allocation mechanism for our servers in OpenStack. We make a REST call… Read More

One of the big talking points in the cloud networking world, and at the recent Mobile World Congress which has just concluded, is ONAP. This project is showing immense promise in bringing open, comprehensive network orchestration and automation to virtual network functions and physical devices. In… Read More

In our previous post, The Cloud Native VNF Explosion at MWC18, we discussed  the VNF on-boarding process and its challenges. Cloudify and 6Wind have partnered to demonstrate how the VNF on-boarding process can be simplified significantly. The secret sauce is to use a proper orchestration engine… As… Read More