azure 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
