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We’re sure the short five months and twenty days (but who’s counting really?) you’ve been waiting for 3.2 to land have been torturous agony – but fear not, it is officially here, and all that nail-biting and lost sleep will have been well worth it when you hear what’s in… Read More

This is the second part of our Orchestration tool comparison. You can find part I here. PLEASE NOTE: This blog post does not offer a fully working example of auto-scaling with TOSCA & Cloudify, only a theoretical example of how it would work. We hope… Read More

This post was originally published on OpenSource.com. I recently stumbled upon this piece discussing the cost of cloud, and it made me realize that people still seem to mistakenly believe that open source is just about cost savings. Often times, when asked… Read More

In Cloudify, “deployments” define an isolated namespace that contains a collection of nodes and relationships. These nodes and relationships are typically visualized as a complete “stack” of technologies, that deliver a complete platform for computing. An example is a classic load balancer, web servers, app servers, and database stack. Read More

Introduction by Idan Moyal, Cloudify R&D Team Leader In the past I’ve written about the progress of TOSCA through my experience as a core committer in the Heat Translator project and an active member of the Oasis Foundation. In advance of… Read More

After a very fascinating first podcast about SDN & NFV, the OpenStack & Beyond podcast is back with a fantastic second episode recorded live from the OpenStack Summit in beautiful, sunny Vancouver. Hosts… Read More

Scaling – it’s all the rave. When having a conversation about cloud orchestration (all the cool kids are doing it these days), you just can’t go ten minutes without someone being the party pooper and chiming in with the good old: “Yeah, but can you… Read More

A multi-network friendly Openstack VM image with netplugd A while (long while. Sorry about that) ago, I posted about setting up a VM in an Openstack cloud so that it worked nicely with multiple networks. I also promised… Read More

TOSCA is a very good descriptive language for VNF definition, nodes monitoring and active policies like healing and scaling, as it has the combination of declarative descriptions of the application topology with all its components – from the application and network components… Read More

The 11th release of OpenStack has officially landed in advance of the OpenStack summit, which makes this the “K” release of OpenStack, and it has aptly been named Kilo, for the hefty goodness it brings with it. The long, tall and skinny… Read More

It’s that time of year again to pack up and ship out to the next OpenStack Summit and Team Cloudify is ready to rock Vancouver. Twice a year, people with varying backgrounds and experience with OpenStack come together to learn about the technology, hear what’s… Read More

OpenStack & Beyond Podcast Returns With Hosts Shlomo Swidler and Nati Shalom | May 4, 2015 The OpenStack & Beyond podcast is back in a new incarnation, having rebranded from the OpenStack Israel podcast, with host Shlomo Swidler of Orchestratus now… Read More