Public/admin api’s and high availability with Red Hat OpenStack Installer 6 Juno / Getting OpenStack HA CloudForms ready

This post will guide you through the configuration for an OpenStack HA cluster setup with public facing admin/public apis. Exposing the OpenStack apis is essential if you want to make use of hybrid cloud management tools like CloudForms. OpenStack HA is a very complex beast and hard to setup if you don’t have the right tooling….

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Cloudforms / ManageIQ automation and centralized logging with logstash kibana and elasticsearch

Cloudforms / ManageIQ has a very powerful automation engine. There is basically nothing you can’t do with it. You could even trigger an api call to make coffee during a provisioning run. But what if your provisioning fails? Every step which is executed by the cloudforms automation engine gets logged into /var/www/miq/vmdb/log/evm.log or /var/www/miq/vmdb/log/automation.log. As…

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