The Cloudify Blog

We’re starting a new tradition of a roundup of excellent stuff we happened upon on the interwebs – from tools, to repos, to blog posts, so get ready for chock full of awesome stuff to check out. Some of this stuff has already gone viral, but in case you… Read More

Since joining GigaSpaces a few months ago, I thought it would be interesting to write down some thoughts about my experience on the journey from the closed-source, enterprise world to the open source, startup mentality of getting work done, both internally at the office as well as from a… Read More

In a previous post titled “Deployment Composition In Cloudify”, I described using a custom type/plugin to compose multiple blueprints. This post describes an expansion of that effort, to make nodecellar into a real distributed app. In essence, I describe a concrete implementation of the blueprint described… Read More

    Introduction – Sharone Zitzman   With an an excellent OpenStack Summit just behind us, there were a lot of interesting projects that were launched or announced in conjunction with the summit.  This post will focus on one project that… Read More

Well, folks, another OpenStack Summit is behind us. That means we will have to wait until 2016 for the next one, which is slated to take place in Austin, TX at the end of April. With an amazing turnout of more… Read More

    We set out to ambitiously broadcast live from the OpenStack Summit again, and despite having wifi troubles (hence the shaky start), and no real viable quiet place to sit – we went for it nonetheless, and came out with an excellent (albeit somewhat… Read More

In my previous post, I discussed enhancing the original, basic Kubernetes plugin into a version that was reasonably functional. That version was designed to use Fabric and operate on preexisting machines (virtual or “bare metal”). This post discusses the changes needed to create the same hybrid… Read More

It’s great to see Murano is gaining popularity and usage since its release, along with additional projects added in the last OpenStack releases – from Sahara to Marconi, I find the addition and the diversity of projects now available in this growing ecosystem extremely impressive. So… Read More

Integrating Cloudify with Kubernetes is compelling for those with hybrid environments (containers, virtualization, cloud, bare metal, even hardware), who would like to leverage Kubernetes’ container management instead of Cloudify’s, and/or leverage Cloudify’s event driven workflows to perform autoscaling… Read More

OpenStack Liberty was released just a few days ago on October 15th. This is OpenStack’s twelfth release of the widely-used cloud computing platform. Liberty is also a great name for this release as it brings with it a “liberating” factor for many developers – the new… Read More

Before the dust even settled around the whopping Dell/EMC deal, another bombshell was dropped with the Red Hat acquisition of Ansible over the weekend.  While I was still processing my thoughts on what I think the Dell deal means for the enterprise IT industry – I had… Read More

I’d like to preempt by saying, this is an off-topic post, but since I know what goes into building a tool, I think it’s a worthy undertaking to just give a quick shout out to those I think are doing great thing.  So here is a quick roundup of a… Read More