In the last few month I got quite a few requests on deploying RHV as a single hyper-converged non extendable node with local storage (not gluster). This blog post is going to show you how you can install RHVM on baremetal and add the same host which hosts the baremetal engine to RHVM. As always,…
As you probably read we did opensource ansible tower https://github.com/ansible/awx . This was a big and necessary step to follow the red hat way of being truly opensource. Thanks to Jeff Geerling we also have a role https://galaxy.ansible.com/geerlingguy/awx/ to install awx. To install AWX on RHEL (remember this is not supported by GSS) you need to…
Let say you want to prove to your security team that running a pod in Red Hat OpenShift is really removing capabilities from the running container. There is not much documentation out there which explains how to find what capabilities get stripped so I will walk you through how you can make the case. Step…
It was a great honor to present at Asia Tech Exchange in Vietnam! The presentation I gave was a modified version of the Red Hat Summit presentation and included a live demo of deploying Satellite 6, Ansible Tower, CloudForms and Red Hat Insights fully integrated in 45 minutes. The participants were able to understand and…
I will be speaking at Red Hat Tech Exchange in Vietnam September 3rd about the power of integration around the Red Hat Management portfolio. You will see a life demo on how you can deploy and full integrate CloudForms, Satellite6 and Ansible Tower. I will also explain why it is important to have native integration…
Here is the content I’ve presented at the NJ Red Hat User Group in Woodbridge.
CloudForms has the capability to trigger a management event if the driving event is met. So for example if a vmware vm gets a reset you can execute a custom event under System – Events – CustomEvents – Management: If you want to execute a Management event you will need to copy the Management class…
Part 2 is going to show you how you can run the catalog item created in Part 1 from a custom button. Go to Automation – Automate – Customization – Buttons. Click on Cluster / Deployment role and create a new Button Group Now click on Configuration – Add New Button and add the following…
This post will explain what steps you need to go through to enable the ansible management of RHV on the first release of CFME 4.5. I assume that you’ve already enabled the Embedded Ansible role in Configuration – Server Control (enabling ansible automation inside can take up to 7-10 minutes) . CloudForms 4.5 comes with…
I was speaking at the “IT Modernization with Open Management and Containers” event in Rochester, NY June 14th. The talk was covering how you can embrace cloud get insights into the different players like AWS, GCP, Azure and manage your instances and services through the CloudForms Management Engine. Here are the slides to the presentation: