The Cloudify Blog

The OpenStack Summit is about to begin and Team Cloudify has landed in Atlanta! Once again we are looking forward to an action packed week with our fellow stackers and are ready to make some noise around some juicy updates. The latest and greatest version of Cloudify, version 3.0, is… Read More

OpenStack Orchestration Moves up the Stack OpenStack Icehouse, the Ninth OpenStack Release, was announced at the last summit and was named for a street in Hong Kong. The Icehouse release is primarily focused on stability and maturity. The release marks another milestone in the growth of the project.  Just… Read More

Openstack is clearly making waves and rapidly becoming the de-facto standard in private clouds. In the last few releases, its orchestration engine, Heat, which was originally inspired by Amazon CloudFormation, is getting more mature with more desired functionality. I wanted to share my experience with setting up my… Read More

In his book Taste Test, Matt Jaynes compares a few popular configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, SaltStack and Ansible. Cloudify – plug in ANY TOOL. Read More

How we built a testing-as-service infrastructure for our team of developers using Git, QuickBuild, JClouds, Cloudify, Logstash, TestNG, Tomcat, & MySQL System testing is one of the most tedious, time consuming and error prone procedures in software development. More so when developing and testing distributed middleware products. All this, when… Read More

In my previous post I discussed the need for virtualization of network functions on the cloud. In this post, I’m going to dive into a real world scenario, that CAN actually try at home.  (Really we also support local cloud, remember?) So just to recap,… Read More

    I first heard the term NFV a year ago as part of the writeup that I was doing with Alcatel Lucent on CloudBand titled Carrier Grade PaaS covering our collaboration. Ever since that time it looks… Read More

Today, the large majority of companies use logs and events to perform post analysis (in the best scenario).  Many times, they don’t even do that, and logs just lie wasted without anyone doing anything with them. But a good logging and event handling infrastructure, if written and configured correctly, are… Read More

As NFV (network function virtualization) becomes trendy more network vendors are working on a solution of how to take their existing investment in network products and make them NFV enabled. The target is that eventually everything will run as virtual software components on commoditized hardware. To this end,… Read More

This post is going to be a prologue to my next post on how to create logs with structured data to be able to extract and act upon the most relevant information, and eventually even automate these tasks. Building such systems is no trivial task, and to reach that promised… Read More

  Over the past few weeks I came across various cases where people questioned the maturity of OpenStack and its fit to enterprise customers. The most recent one was a piece called “Enterprises should just ignore OpenStack“, that basically suggested that OpenStack doesn’t really answer any enterprise needs… Read More

width=”100%”— layout: blogpost title: Moving from an interface to a base class across Java versions image: barak.jpg author: Barak Merimovich tags: – Cloud Driver – JClouds – Programming – Cloud Computing — Interfaces are one of the core design… Read More