The Cloudify Blog

Prediction has always been a fun exercise. It forces you to take a step back from your day to day activities, look at the market “crystal ball” and figure out what the future looks like. This year I found this exercise to be particularly difficult as the amount of new… Read More

The number of open source frameworks that are available today is continuously growing at an enormous pace, with over 1 million unique open source projects today, as indicated in a “(newwindow)recent survey” : http://www.slideshare.net/blackducksoftware/the-2013-future-of-open-source-survey-results by Black Duck. The availability of these frameworks has changed the way we build products… Read More

I’m pretty excited to take part in the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong in a few days. Uri Cohen and I will give a talk about Cloud Application Orchestration. This is a great opportunity for us to share what we have learned during the last three years building… Read More

“(newwindow)Alex Freedland”:http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpub%2Falex-freedland%2F0%2F12b%2Fb42&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNF6zIu-mlHUq2cUHZK3GHIxC8NzxQ, Co-Founder and Chairman at Mirantis, wrote a “(newwindow)controversial post”:http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Freadwrite.com%2F2013%2F10%2F25%2Fmirantis-to-paas-vendors-stop-fighting-openstack-gravity%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%3A%2Breadwriteweb%2B(ReadWriteWeb)&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEI5tg5aaPxJxnIrmr3obJ_5kvRTw in which he basically marks the breakout of some existing PaaS frameworks from OpenStack – CloudFoundry specifically. Personally, I think that Freedland highlights a growing sentiment in the OpenStack community. The fact that OpenStack is open source should change… Read More

Matt Jaynes, Founder of DevOps University, wrote a great post on Hacker News, What is Continuous Deployment, in which he points out one of challenges that many people gloss over when they embark on their DevOps journey. In a nutshell, Matt was saying that, “You should get your… Read More

It’s that time of year again for the OpenStack Summit, and the Cloudify team will soon be shipping out to Hong Kong to take part. We’ve got a bunch of exciting announcements to make and a MONSTER giveaway going to one lucky winner at the event. From a new… Read More

Introduction GigaSpaces XAP has lacked an official Cloudify recipe for some time now, and this series of posts will address my efforts to create one. The task of automating the deployment and management of the potentially complex suite of services that XAP represents is a challenge in and of… Read More

In this post we outline a pattern for implementing the Warm Disaster Recovery pattern across two Amazon EC2 regions. Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Accomplishing a suitable disaster recovery strategy is crucial to many enterprises. However, the means to achieve an appropriate level of redundancy is challenging… Read More

There’ve been various discussions in the community on OpenStack Interoperability and Portability. The discussions tend to be centralized around the future of the OpenStack API and whether or not it would make sense to support the AWS API on top of OpenStack to allow for better compatibility with… Read More

Overview Cloudify and Opscode Chef work together to provide the greatest high qualify recipe/cookbook coverage for deployment that is possible.  Cloudify works with Chef by delegating the installation (and potentially startup) phases of recipe lifecycle to Chef for individual services.  Cloudify takes care of full application deployment and coordination,… Read More

Architecting and building a web service in the cloud age is quite simple. Options range from web site generators such as Wix, to Paas providers such as GAE, all the way to the traditional LAMP setup hosted on IaaS that gives you the maximum control and customization power. Read More

Here’s a short post that explains how to install Heat and DevStack on Vagrant # Download and install “(newwindow)Vagrant”:http://downloads.vagrantup.com (1.2.6). # Download an “(newwindow)Ubuntu box”:http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box for the vagrant and place it in your Vagrant folder. # Download this Vagrantfile and place it in your Vagrant folder: #… Read More