The Cloudify Blog

When we discuss the often abused term DevOps, we’re mostly focusing on two elements: automation in the form of deploying apps, and maintaining infrastructure, and culture in the form of collaboration and communication. The most common gripes we often hear range… Read More

OpenStack Heat makes orchestrating the deployment of multiple OpenStack elements a breeze using its “stack” concept. By defining a HOT (Heat Orchestrating Template) document that describes the stack and “creating” the stack based on the document, Heat will orchestrate the deployment of many elements including… Read More

OpenStack Silicon Valley is just a few short days away and we are looking forward to talking OpenStack with the local community.A main focus for Team Cloudify at the event will be around the topic of portability AKA hybrid cloud, not… Read More

  OpenStack is just not like any other cloud. OpenStack is an open source cloud and that makes it quite unique in comparison to many of the closed source public clouds generally available today, the most common being AWS, Azure GCE, and others. Read More

In this post, I am going to show an actual example of using WinRM to execute commands on a remote machine using Powershell. Read More

A new open source Python module to help you with your performance testing, load testing, configurations, data structure, metrics…you name it. Intro We’ve all (well.. not ALL…) been in that situation where we need to generate random data for any number of reasons.  For instance, something I kept… Read More

When architecting our workflow engine for Cloudify 3.0, our primary goal was to be able to provide our users with a framework that will make it possible to write custom workflows that integrate seamlessly with our orchestration framework. Based on this premise, we knew our workflow… Read More

If you are familiar with configuration management (aka CM) and automation, you probably know a thing or two about Puppet, and the amazing and rich collection of modules it offers. Puppet Forge contains a wealth of third party modules that enable us to do some pretty… Read More

Orchestration of Applications on the cloud The cloud gives you the option of using as many resources as you want, essentially “endless” resources on demand, where you only pay for what you use. In a world where everything is dynamic and IT environments are constantly changing, this is becoming an… Read More

Cloudify 3.0 is a major milestone for Gigaspaces. It tightens our integration with Openstack and steers the product architecture to closely match the OpenStack architecture stack. There are several ways to get started with Cloudify 3.0 on OpenStack: You can use an OpenStack public cloud such as HP Cloud You… Read More

Once upon a time, large scale deployment required a large IT team to provision and organize resources.They were needed for example, to buy machines, set up hosting, guarantee network bandwidth, and so forth. Bearing in mind that this was all before the actual application code could even be… Read More

Today, like pretty much everything else in the IT world, monitoring is also a siloed area, and falls into two general types of tools — infrastructure monitoring and application performance monitoring (AKA APM).  These tools for the most part don’t really interact, and so, it can be quite a challenge… Read More