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

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

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

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

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,

And another showing how to add disks.

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

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

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

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