To success in Private Cloud, You have to have develop management and automation
strategy. Cloudforms is CPM (Cloud Platform Management) software that provides framework to develop management and automation strategy with its flaxible automation
module
Pedal to the metal: Red Hat CloudForms for workload & infrastructure managementAlex Baretto
Enterprise IT professionals have unique cloud resource challenges. To deploy and manage an enterprise application today, you need a solution that ensures compliance with corporate IT governance requirements and has predictable and repeatable performance and costs. Plus, business users want solutions that can be deployed quickly.
In this session, you’ll learn how to overcome these enterprise-class cloud deployment challenges. See how Red Hat CloudForms can automate OpenStack reference architecture design creation, deployment, and management for workloads and infrastructures.
Learn how to visually inventory deployed OpenStack reference architectures and monitor OpenStack usage, including how to budget for platform usage by project, department, or program, and track and allocate costs in a similar way.
Building Enterprise Clouds - Key Considerations and Strategies - RED HATFadi Semaan
What key capabilities are important to enterprise when building a Cloud ?
This presentation will discuss these 5 Keys:
1) Self-Service Portal
2) Automated Provisioning
3) Chargeback/Showback
4) Capacity Management & Planning
5) Leverage Existing Infrastructure
Presented by Joe Fitzgerald
GM, Cloud Management Products BU Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com
Google Cloud Dataproc - Easier, faster, more cost-effective Spark and Hadoophuguk
At Google Cloud Platform, we're combining the Apache Spark and Hadoop ecosystem with our software and hardware innovations. We want to make these awesome tools easier, faster, and more cost-effective, from 3 to 30,000 cores. This presentation will showcase how Google Cloud Platform is innovating with the goal of bringing the Hadoop ecosystem to everyone.
Bio: "I love data because it surrounds us - everything is data. I also love open source software, because it shows what is possible when people come together to solve common problems with technology. While they are awesome on their own, I am passionate about combining the power of open source software with the potential unlimited uses of data. That's why I joined Google. I am a product manager for Google Cloud Platform and manage Cloud Dataproc and Apache Beam (incubating). I've previously spent time hanging out at Disney and Amazon. Beyond Google, love data, amateur radio, Disneyland, photography, running and Legos."
CloudForms is a comprehensive IaaS cloud management platform that improves your virtual and cloud infrastructures with advanced capacity planning and resource management features.
Scalar & RedHat present a technical session to learn about CloudForms as the experts in cloud management!
Discussion Topics:
Red Hat and the Open Hybrid Cloud
Cloud Management & Orchestration using Cloud Forms
Pedal to the metal: Red Hat CloudForms for workload & infrastructure managementAlex Baretto
Enterprise IT professionals have unique cloud resource challenges. To deploy and manage an enterprise application today, you need a solution that ensures compliance with corporate IT governance requirements and has predictable and repeatable performance and costs. Plus, business users want solutions that can be deployed quickly.
In this session, you’ll learn how to overcome these enterprise-class cloud deployment challenges. See how Red Hat CloudForms can automate OpenStack reference architecture design creation, deployment, and management for workloads and infrastructures.
Learn how to visually inventory deployed OpenStack reference architectures and monitor OpenStack usage, including how to budget for platform usage by project, department, or program, and track and allocate costs in a similar way.
Building Enterprise Clouds - Key Considerations and Strategies - RED HATFadi Semaan
What key capabilities are important to enterprise when building a Cloud ?
This presentation will discuss these 5 Keys:
1) Self-Service Portal
2) Automated Provisioning
3) Chargeback/Showback
4) Capacity Management & Planning
5) Leverage Existing Infrastructure
Presented by Joe Fitzgerald
GM, Cloud Management Products BU Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com
Google Cloud Dataproc - Easier, faster, more cost-effective Spark and Hadoophuguk
At Google Cloud Platform, we're combining the Apache Spark and Hadoop ecosystem with our software and hardware innovations. We want to make these awesome tools easier, faster, and more cost-effective, from 3 to 30,000 cores. This presentation will showcase how Google Cloud Platform is innovating with the goal of bringing the Hadoop ecosystem to everyone.
Bio: "I love data because it surrounds us - everything is data. I also love open source software, because it shows what is possible when people come together to solve common problems with technology. While they are awesome on their own, I am passionate about combining the power of open source software with the potential unlimited uses of data. That's why I joined Google. I am a product manager for Google Cloud Platform and manage Cloud Dataproc and Apache Beam (incubating). I've previously spent time hanging out at Disney and Amazon. Beyond Google, love data, amateur radio, Disneyland, photography, running and Legos."
CloudForms is a comprehensive IaaS cloud management platform that improves your virtual and cloud infrastructures with advanced capacity planning and resource management features.
Scalar & RedHat present a technical session to learn about CloudForms as the experts in cloud management!
Discussion Topics:
Red Hat and the Open Hybrid Cloud
Cloud Management & Orchestration using Cloud Forms
Join AWS and Neudesic for this live webinar about data center migration to the AWS Cloud. We will focus on Windows Server 2003 end of support, which is scheduled for July 2015. This is a great opportunity to move these workloads to the cloud and get on a newer operating system. We’ll cover migration strategies as well as best practices and considerations for moving your data center to the cloud. This webinar is intended for IT professionals, developers, and solution architects.
Datapipe, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, has built and customized a global monitoring platform specifically for AWS. This presentation discusses the challenges encountered when architecting this solution and provides a live demonstration of the platform and its specific monitoring capabilities.
RightScale Webinar: Successfully Deploy Your Windows WorkloadsRightScale
Moving Windows applications and workloads to the cloud requires careful consideration and planning. What are the technical and business requirements your organization requires of the cloud? RightScale wants to make sure you’re considering all variables at play to avoid costly mistakes and ensure great success.
In this webinar we focus on methodologies to determine when and how to leverage the cloud for Windows environments. This session includes:
1. Reviewing how the Infrastructure as a Service space has matured in the past year
2. Why our customers move from on-premises to the cloud
3. Migration challenges and best practices when considering types of workloads
4. Detailed methodologies we use every day to successfully migrate customer projects
5. Customer successes moving windows workloads
• What are the key design characteristics for IaaS clouds?
• What are some of the key IaaS cloud patterns that emerge from these choices?
• What fundamental capabilities are impacted by these decisions?
• How do you use this knowledge to better construct a portfolio of IaaS cloud services best suited to your portfolio of applications?
Microsoft Azure is the only hybrid cloud to help you migrate your apps, data, and infrastructure with cost-effective and flexible paths. At this event you’ll learn how thousands of customers have migrated to Azure, at their own pace and with high confidence by using a reliable methodology, flexible and powerful tools, and proven partner expertise. Come to this event to learn how Azure can help you save—before, during, and after migration, and how it offers unmatched value during every stage of your cloud migration journey. Learn about assessments, migration offers, and cost management tools to help you migrate with confidence.
RightScale Webinar: Key Considerations For Cloud Migration and PortabilityRightScale
Migrating applications to the cloud requires both a sound strategy and a clear understanding of technical considerations. In addition, you will want to ensure portability between clouds to avoid lock-in. This session will define strategic approaches to cloud migration and how to assess application suitability for migration.
In this webinar we cover the following:
1. Three common strategies to guide your migration decisions
2. Evaluating cloud-readiness of your application portfolio
3. Twelve technical considerations when migrating applications to cloud
4. Six use cases for cloud portability
5. Ensuring portability between AWS, Azure, Google, OpenStack, VMware vSphere and other clouds
RightScale Webinar: Best Practices: Software Development Strategies Using Win...RightScale
In April of 2013 Microsoft released the Windows Azure IaaS service for general availability. We were proud to be a launch day partner with Microsoft and here at RightScale we are excited to see the cloud computing market mature and grow.
Please join us for an in-depth discussion and demonstration on how to increase agility and automation in your software development lifecycle.
In this webinar, we will cover how to:
- Enrich the dev/test cycle with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Perform rapid testing and validation
- Enable virtual machine usage for dev/test, with a deep discussion of the artifacts and mechanics of it
- Create IT policy without headaches
- Enable dev/test with "approved assets" and policies
Cloud native applications offer scalability, flexibility, and optimal use of compute resources. Serverless functions interacting through events, leveraging cloud capabilities for persistent storage and automated operations take organization to the next level in IT. This session demonstrates polyglot Functions interacting with native cloud services for events and persistence (Object Storage and NoSQL Database) and leveraging the Key and Secrets Vault, Monitoring and Notifications services for operational control. A lightweight API Gateway is used to expose APIs to external consumers. Infrastructure as Code is the guiding principle in deploying both cloud resources and application components, through OCI CLI and Terraform. This session leverages many cloud native (enabling) services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The session will introduce concepts, then spend most of the time on live demonstrations. All sources are shared with the audience, to allow participants to create the same application in their own cloud tenancy.
What is so great about Cloud Native Applications? How do you create one? I will explain the first and demonstrate the second. On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, using services that anyone can use for free, I will live create a cloud native application that streams, persists, notifies, scales, monitors
Automating the Enterprise with CloudForms & AnsibleJerome Marc
Automating the Enterprise with CloudForms & Ansible:
- Self-service IT requests and automated delivery of IT services.
- Automated configuration and policy enforcement of deployed systems.
- Operational visibility and control.
Join AWS and Neudesic for this live webinar about data center migration to the AWS Cloud. We will focus on Windows Server 2003 end of support, which is scheduled for July 2015. This is a great opportunity to move these workloads to the cloud and get on a newer operating system. We’ll cover migration strategies as well as best practices and considerations for moving your data center to the cloud. This webinar is intended for IT professionals, developers, and solution architects.
Datapipe, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, has built and customized a global monitoring platform specifically for AWS. This presentation discusses the challenges encountered when architecting this solution and provides a live demonstration of the platform and its specific monitoring capabilities.
RightScale Webinar: Successfully Deploy Your Windows WorkloadsRightScale
Moving Windows applications and workloads to the cloud requires careful consideration and planning. What are the technical and business requirements your organization requires of the cloud? RightScale wants to make sure you’re considering all variables at play to avoid costly mistakes and ensure great success.
In this webinar we focus on methodologies to determine when and how to leverage the cloud for Windows environments. This session includes:
1. Reviewing how the Infrastructure as a Service space has matured in the past year
2. Why our customers move from on-premises to the cloud
3. Migration challenges and best practices when considering types of workloads
4. Detailed methodologies we use every day to successfully migrate customer projects
5. Customer successes moving windows workloads
• What are the key design characteristics for IaaS clouds?
• What are some of the key IaaS cloud patterns that emerge from these choices?
• What fundamental capabilities are impacted by these decisions?
• How do you use this knowledge to better construct a portfolio of IaaS cloud services best suited to your portfolio of applications?
Microsoft Azure is the only hybrid cloud to help you migrate your apps, data, and infrastructure with cost-effective and flexible paths. At this event you’ll learn how thousands of customers have migrated to Azure, at their own pace and with high confidence by using a reliable methodology, flexible and powerful tools, and proven partner expertise. Come to this event to learn how Azure can help you save—before, during, and after migration, and how it offers unmatched value during every stage of your cloud migration journey. Learn about assessments, migration offers, and cost management tools to help you migrate with confidence.
RightScale Webinar: Key Considerations For Cloud Migration and PortabilityRightScale
Migrating applications to the cloud requires both a sound strategy and a clear understanding of technical considerations. In addition, you will want to ensure portability between clouds to avoid lock-in. This session will define strategic approaches to cloud migration and how to assess application suitability for migration.
In this webinar we cover the following:
1. Three common strategies to guide your migration decisions
2. Evaluating cloud-readiness of your application portfolio
3. Twelve technical considerations when migrating applications to cloud
4. Six use cases for cloud portability
5. Ensuring portability between AWS, Azure, Google, OpenStack, VMware vSphere and other clouds
RightScale Webinar: Best Practices: Software Development Strategies Using Win...RightScale
In April of 2013 Microsoft released the Windows Azure IaaS service for general availability. We were proud to be a launch day partner with Microsoft and here at RightScale we are excited to see the cloud computing market mature and grow.
Please join us for an in-depth discussion and demonstration on how to increase agility and automation in your software development lifecycle.
In this webinar, we will cover how to:
- Enrich the dev/test cycle with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Perform rapid testing and validation
- Enable virtual machine usage for dev/test, with a deep discussion of the artifacts and mechanics of it
- Create IT policy without headaches
- Enable dev/test with "approved assets" and policies
Cloud native applications offer scalability, flexibility, and optimal use of compute resources. Serverless functions interacting through events, leveraging cloud capabilities for persistent storage and automated operations take organization to the next level in IT. This session demonstrates polyglot Functions interacting with native cloud services for events and persistence (Object Storage and NoSQL Database) and leveraging the Key and Secrets Vault, Monitoring and Notifications services for operational control. A lightweight API Gateway is used to expose APIs to external consumers. Infrastructure as Code is the guiding principle in deploying both cloud resources and application components, through OCI CLI and Terraform. This session leverages many cloud native (enabling) services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The session will introduce concepts, then spend most of the time on live demonstrations. All sources are shared with the audience, to allow participants to create the same application in their own cloud tenancy.
What is so great about Cloud Native Applications? How do you create one? I will explain the first and demonstrate the second. On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, using services that anyone can use for free, I will live create a cloud native application that streams, persists, notifies, scales, monitors
Automating the Enterprise with CloudForms & AnsibleJerome Marc
Automating the Enterprise with CloudForms & Ansible:
- Self-service IT requests and automated delivery of IT services.
- Automated configuration and policy enforcement of deployed systems.
- Operational visibility and control.
Jamcracker Cloud Management Platform: Control, Govern and Manage Enterprise C...John Katrick
Jamcracker Cloud Management Platform provides a unified cloud management solution to integrate the disparate cloud environments. Allows you to control, govern and manage your enterprise cloud resources with automation, orchestration, policy enforcement and management tools. Visit https://www.jamcracker.com/cloud-management-platform to know more.
오토스케일링(Auto-scaling)은 AWS 클라우드를 통해 고확장성 서비스와 아키텍처를 구성하는 데 필요한 가장 중요한 요소 중 하나입니다. 이 강연에서는 효과적인 클라우드 인프라 구축을 위해 오토 스케일링을 활용하는 다양한 방법에 대해 자세히 소개해 드립니다.
오토 스케일링 그룹의 구성과 확장 계획에 따른 설정 방법, 오토 스케일링 라이프 사이클과 CloudWatch 및 알림을 이용한 관리 방법, 각종 오토스케일링 모범사례 등을 알아보실 수 있습니다.
Cloud Computing for Small & Medium BusinessesAl Sabawi
I presented this topic at the Greater Binghamton Business Expo in Upstate New York. It is meant to shed light on utilizing Cloud Computing for Small and Medium size businesses. It should help decision makers consider Software-as-a-Service offerings for their business as a way to save on IT cost and to deliver on better efficiency for their organizations.
Harnessing the Cloud for Performance Testing- Impetus White PaperImpetus Technologies
For Impetus’ White Papers archive, visit- http://www.impetus.com/whitepaper
The paper provides insights on the various benefits of using the Cloud for Performance Testing as well as how to address the various challenges associated with this approach.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Welocme to ViralQR, your best QR code generator.ViralQR
Welcome to ViralQR, your best QR code generator available on the market!
At ViralQR, we design static and dynamic QR codes. Our mission is to make business operations easier and customer engagement more powerful through the use of QR technology. Be it a small-scale business or a huge enterprise, our easy-to-use platform provides multiple choices that can be tailored according to your company's branding and marketing strategies.
Our Vision
We are here to make the process of creating QR codes easy and smooth, thus enhancing customer interaction and making business more fluid. We very strongly believe in the ability of QR codes to change the world for businesses in their interaction with customers and are set on making that technology accessible and usable far and wide.
Our Achievements
Ever since its inception, we have successfully served many clients by offering QR codes in their marketing, service delivery, and collection of feedback across various industries. Our platform has been recognized for its ease of use and amazing features, which helped a business to make QR codes.
Our Services
At ViralQR, here is a comprehensive suite of services that caters to your very needs:
Static QR Codes: Create free static QR codes. These QR codes are able to store significant information such as URLs, vCards, plain text, emails and SMS, Wi-Fi credentials, and Bitcoin addresses.
Dynamic QR codes: These also have all the advanced features but are subscription-based. They can directly link to PDF files, images, micro-landing pages, social accounts, review forms, business pages, and applications. In addition, they can be branded with CTAs, frames, patterns, colors, and logos to enhance your branding.
Pricing and Packages
Additionally, there is a 14-day free offer to ViralQR, which is an exceptional opportunity for new users to take a feel of this platform. One can easily subscribe from there and experience the full dynamic of using QR codes. The subscription plans are not only meant for business; they are priced very flexibly so that literally every business could afford to benefit from our service.
Why choose us?
ViralQR will provide services for marketing, advertising, catering, retail, and the like. The QR codes can be posted on fliers, packaging, merchandise, and banners, as well as to substitute for cash and cards in a restaurant or coffee shop. With QR codes integrated into your business, improve customer engagement and streamline operations.
Comprehensive Analytics
Subscribers of ViralQR receive detailed analytics and tracking tools in light of having a view of the core values of QR code performance. Our analytics dashboard shows aggregate views and unique views, as well as detailed information about each impression, including time, device, browser, and estimated location by city and country.
So, thank you for choosing ViralQR; we have an offer of nothing but the best in terms of QR code services to meet business diversity!
Openstack Cloud Management and Automation Using Red Hat Cloudforms 4.0
1. OpenStack Management & Automation
using CloudForms 4.0
Prasad Mukhedkar
Senior Technical Support Engineer
2. Introduction
A cloud management platform is a piece of all-in-one software with integrated
tools that provide a unified platform for provisioning, management, billing, control,
and governance of resources across different types of cloud deployments, such as
private and public, and virtualized infrastructures.
Holistic Management platform for your
Cloud infrastructure
“Private IaaS Cloud deployments are set up for failure
if you don’t develop a management strategy upfront"
Source : Gartner Research
3. Openstack Management Challenges
● How do I provide my users with self-service yet still control what they
can see and do?
● How do I tie self-service to what's going on in my infrastructure?
● How do I provide adequate support and service levels when I give
users control?
● How do I ensure compliance on my cloud workload?
● How can I integrate this “cloud” into my existing infrastructure tools
and processes?
● How can I plan for capacity requirements to maintain of my cloud’s
illusion of unlimited resources?
4. Openstack Management Challenges
● How do I handle N-Tier application stacks and automate
delivery to users?
● How do I manage my capacity to maximize utilization while
still delivering adequate/ good performance and availability?
● How do I chargeback in a self-service model across multiple
clouds/platforms?
Openstack Native tools lack the functionalities
needed to deal with these challenges .
5. Cloudforms Management capabilities
Cloudforms enhance the management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux®
OpenStack Platform, including:
Self-service automated provisioning
Chargeback
Capacity management
Performance management
Configuration management
Life cycle management
The service catalog
Orchestration
External cloud connection
7. Cloudforms, Easy to Deploy and scale
The CFME Appliance is supplied as a secure, high performance,pre-configured virtual
machine in OVA format.
- Download Cloudforms installer image
- Upload the image to your cloud, Glance repository
- Spawn a instance using cloudforms image
Installation
Configuration
- Perform basic configuration (IP/DNS )
- Configure database (external/internal)
- Set up region
- set password encryption key
Postgres Database
CFME
Appliance
CFME
Appliance 2
Load balancing
CFME
Appliance N
Failover
10. Adding Openstack (UnderCloud and OverCloud)
UnderCloud ( Red Hat Openstack Director) OverCloud (Red Hat Openstack Cloud)
- Navigate to Infrastructure → Providers.
- Click (Configuration), then click (Add a New Infrastructure Provider).
- Type in the Name of the provider to add.
- Select the Type of provider as Openstack Platform Director
- Type in the Host Name, and IP Address of the provider to add.
- Provider User ID and Password with administrator privileges to
the provider.
- Navigate to Cloud → Providers.
- Click (Configuration), then click (Add a New Cloud Provider).
- Type in the Name of the provider to add.
- Select the Type of provider as Openstack, Enter Controller VIP
- Select The openstack Infra Provider
- Provider User ID and Password with administrator privileges to the
provider.
12. Discovery and inventory collection, OverCloud
Comprehensive inventory data collection of :
● Availability Zones
● Tenants
● Flavors
● Security groups
● Instances
● Heat Stacks
1. Top left quadrant: Operating system of the Virtual Machine
2. Bottom left quadrant: Virtual Machine Hosts software
3. Top right quadrant: Power state of Virtual Machine or Status
icon
4. Bottom right quadrant: Number of Snapshots for this Virtual
Machine
Virtual Thumbnails
13. Discovery and inventory collection. UnderCloud
Export Inventory in PDF
CVS format
PowerFull
Search
Provision New baremetal node
Capacity
The big question, What is the capacity of my env?
Relationships, How components connected with
each other
14. Smart State Analysis
SmartState analysis is a key feature of Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine. It uses SmartProxy to
extract internal information of a virtual machine—such as user accounts, applications, software patches,
and so on—and processes all of this.
Insights collected from the operating system running on the instance.
You can customize what info to collect by create analysis profiles
15. Policy Enforcement
A policy in Red Hat CloudForms helps you manage the compliance and control of your openstack
cloud infrastructure. Policies are made up of events, conditions, and actions. It allows cloud operators
to define actions to be taken when certain events are
encountered and certain conditions are met
An event triggers a condition check, and based
on the outcome of the condition, actions are
executed (or not executed).
Instance started
Instance configuration changed
Firewall Enabled?
Is this critical vm?
Add memory, CPU
Shutdown the instance
Each policy has three parts:
• Event: This is a CloudForms event that triggers the policy.
• Condition: This is a test that determines whether further action is taken.
• Action: Represents the steps that are executed when the condition is met (or not met).
16. Control Policies
A control policy is used to manage the hybrid cloud environment by performing actions based on a
condition's outcome. Control policies are created using events, conditions. For example, a SmartState
analysis can automatically be initiated whenever a virtual machine is powered on and the last SmartState
Custom actions can also be created. Example custom actions include sending emails, deleting
snapshots, or reconfiguring the resources of a virtual machine. Existing actions include generating log
messages, converting a virtual machine to a template, or retiring a running virtual machine.
Check Firewall Configuration
On spawning instance
Actions
Some use cases of policies would be examples such as these:
• Checking whether SELinux is in enforcing mode in all RHEL virtual
machines or instances
• Shutting down a virtual machine or instance if a firewall is disabled
Virtually Unlimited use cases
17. Compliance Policies
A compliance policy's primary purpose is to ensure the security and compliance of the cloud environment
by checking certain conditions against an Instance or host and marking them as compliant or
noncompliant. The events and actions are automatically assigned by Red Hat CloudForms Management
Engine. The event is a VM compliance check or host compliance check, and the action is a result that
states whether the virtual machine or instance or host is compliant or noncompliant.
Remember ShellShock - Bash Code Injection Vulnerability ?
Using Cloudforms, 1000 VMs scanned in less than a day to detect vulnerable systems, Emailed VM
owner with warning to update the specific package immediately. For those who not update the system in
given timeframe, Their VMs retired.
Virtually there is no limit on use case of compliance policy.
- Check company security standard before delivering instance to end user.
- Ensure company security polices are adhered by user. Example. No ssh root login allowed
18. Provisioning Instance
Provisioning is the process of creating an instance or virtual machine from an image. Usually, provisioning
of instances in a cloud environment involves logging in to the provider-specific management console or
command-line tools which come with very limited management features. No approval mechanism in place
which is challenge, No automation support. How to integrate external service at the time of provisioning?
Do you want to send an sms to your user when his instance creation request is approved and the instance
is ready? Cloudforms automation module allows this by integrating with SMS Gateways, Example, Twillo.
COM. You can also program provisioning requests to fetch details from external services. Example CMDB.
Request Approve Deploy
Check user privileges and present
custom provisioning dialog box to
request a instance
If request meets auto approval criteria, Deploy it,
if not send email to approver and wait for approval.
Deploy it with automation.
22. Automation
The CloudForms Management Engine Automate model provides real-time, bidirectional process integration
by providing methods for automation, and uses an object-oriented hierarchy to control the automation
functions. Examples:
Send an email to the IT department when datastore is filled up to 80%.
Resize the disk virtual machine automatically when disk usage exceeds 90% for 48 hours,
and update the billing
Retire a virtual machine when idle for more than 48 hours within a particular environment.
NOTE : There is no limit to the scope the Automate model can run in, and interfacing it with
actions and policy event leverages the need to do manual checks, which can be error-
prone.
23. Infrastructure Scaling
Manual Automatic
1. Select the openstack Infrastructure
Provider.
2. Re-Configure the provider with provider
details of new nodes and assign
deployment profile and hit enter.
Wait for magic!
1. Choose a trigger, Alert, Policy, RestAPI
2. Assign trigger to something, Node, Instance
Wait for magic!
24. Service Catalog
Catalogs are another way of provisioning a set of instances or virtual machines and are used to create
application stacks that contain more than one instance or virtual machine. For example, let's consider a
multi-tier web application that contains a web tier, an application tier and a database tier, and we want
our stack to consist of two instances in each tier for high availability and failover. Instead of provisioning
each instance manually, we can create a catalog that contains the entire deployment information, thus
referred to a single template to provision the entire stack. When provisioning is enabled in a catalog, it is
called a service catalog.
Cloudforms support heat orchestration templates for creating service catalog along with its native
tool.
25. Self-Service Portal
Ordering a Service Item, presents the Service Dialog, with various static controls in CloudForms
4.0. Using catalog and self-service portal feature one can create aws marketplace like offering for
the private cloud.
27. Reporting
Provides several reports to help you view the most commonly requested and significant data. It is also
possible to create your own reports.
28. CAPACITY MANAGEMENT & PLANNING
View Capacity & Best Fit Recommendation Across the Landscape
Bottlenecks & Alerting
Capacity Planning
Best-Fit Placement
Trending
32. Future, Cloudforms 4.1
● Service Designer
● Ansible Integration
● SDN and SDS
● Business
Management
33. Questions
- Comprehensive Documentation of the product here :
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-cloudforms/
- 24/7 Support Offering
http://manageiq.org