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CloudForms Service Linking with Ansible Tower

Ansible Tower integration has been supported by CloudForms for a while. Any Tower job template can be presented as a service item in CloudForms, allowing users to easily run automated tasks, while taking advantage of capabilities like its built in RBAC. Example automation might

Ansible Playbook Workflows in ManageIQ

The latest ManageIQ and CloudForms support calling Embedded Ansible Playbooks directly from a State (step) in a StateMachine (workflow). This is useful but passing the extra vars to and between playbooks can be a challenge. Various variables exist in the EVM Automate Workspace which

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New | Detecting Azure Orchestration Errors with CloudForms

CloudForms 4.5 introduced a rework of the service request status and error checking, meaning this post no longer works. Here are updated automate methods. As before, the azure-armrest gem is used to access Azure's event service. Simply import the automate datastore and any

Managing OpenStack with CloudForms 4.5 Ansible Inside

CloudForms 4.5 introduces Embedded Ansible, also know as Ansible Inside. CloudForms can now use Ansible natively to manage Virtual Machines, as well as Amazon and VMware management systems. At present, RHV and OpenStack are not supported. A method of managing RHV systems is

Posting Provider Events to Slack

The Event Switchboard in ManageIQ/CloudForms exposes provider events to Automate, allowing automation based on any supported events. In this example, we're posting Slack messages to a Team channel when Kubernetes events are raised. Slack Webhook In order to post messages to Slack, we

Quota for VM Re-configuration

Provisioning and Service Quota has been available in ManageIQ/CloudForms for a long time. How Quota works is explained beautifully by Peter McGowan, however, quota only applies during initial provisioning. Enabling quota verification during VM reconfiguration would be really useful. Calling the StateMachine Firstly,

Add a disk in RHEV

And another showing how to add disks.

Add a network interface in RHEV

Here is a nice post on adding another adapter on RHEV VMs.

Orchestrating OpenShift Enterprise with ManageIQ

As with any provider in CloudForms, we can easily extend functionality through integration with the provider's API, when the necessary functionality exists. Here is an example use case which came up recently. Scaling an OpenShift Application To scale an existing application, we need to

Use CloudForms and Orchestration Templates to Deploy RHEL on Azure

What's the Point? Orchestration templates make deploying complex services much easier in the cloud. CloudForms has supported OpenStack HEAT and Amazon CloudFormation orchestration templates for a while but the CloudForms 4.0 release added Azure (Resource Manager or ARM) as well. Serving It Up

Detecting Azure Orchestration Errors with CloudForms

The Request Queue The CloudForms service request queue shows automation requests like VM and Service Provision, however failure feedback for the latter is pretty basic. Further digging and log scraping to determine the root cause is usually necessary. This is certainly the case with