I’ve been waiting for this feature since quite a while and its finally here and working. CloudForms 4.2 and OpenShift 3.4 have the ability combined of scanning docker images and define if the images are compliant or not. If the image is not compliant CloudForms annotates the image in OpenShift with images.openshift.io/deny-execution: true and if… Read More »Deny container image execution via CloudForms 4.2 / OpenShift 3.4
Today I finally finished my Ikea Helmer rack project. The goal of the project was to have enough resources to build a full Red Hat Cloud Suite lab. I am in IT now since 1996 and learned that the only way to stay on top of the game is by playing with the technology. I have… Read More »Red Hat Cloud Suite In A Box
My 2017 redhat summit talk Button Push Deployments With Integrated Red Hat Open Management got accepted. I have the big honor of sharing the talk not just with my last years co presenter Michael Dahlgren but also with Red Hat EMEA’S configuration management extraordinaire Maxim Burgerhout. As we combine our talks you can expect an… Read More »Red Hat Summit 2017 S102320: Button Push Deployments With Integrated Red Hat Open Management
To enable Cloudforms to connect to the AWS provider you need to following policies: AmazonEC2FullAccess AWSConfigUserAccess IAMReadOnlyAccess IAMUserSSHKeys AWSCloudFormationReadOnlyAccess As well as two custom policies CFMESNS { “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Effect”: “Allow”, “Action”: [ “sns:*” ], “Resource”: “arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:${AWS-ACCT_ID}:AWSConfig_topic” } ] } CFMESQS { “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Effect”: “Allow”, “Action”: [ “sqs:*”… Read More »CloudForms AWS IAM policies
Here find the slides of the talk “Cloudforms, Satellite 6, Ansible Tower and RH Insights” at the NJ RHUG from Nov 1st 2006
I had multiple requests if CloudForms is able to provision containers via self service to the Red Hat OpenShift container platform. I liked the idea as you can not expect from every developer in your company to know how to create templates or build configs. I will walk you through, step by step how this… Read More »Deploy and build containers on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 via CloudForms 4.2 self service
In the first two parts of the blog series you’ve learned how you can create an inventory synchronizing Ansible Tower with CloudForms, create a Job Template in Ansible Tower and auto generate a service catalog item in CloudForms from the Job Template under the configuration management tab. You’ve also learned how you can create a… Read More »Register hosts to Satellite6 via CloudForms and Ansible Tower part 3
This post will walk you through how to customize the service dialog which we created in the previous post so that we pull the following values via api calls from Satellite6: – Activation Keys – Organization – Location – Hostgroups The end goal will look like this Step 1 First you will need to pull… Read More »Register hosts to Satellite6 via CloudForms and Ansible Tower part 4
This post will show you how to add Ansible Tower as a provider in CloudForms, discover and create a catalog item out of a job template we’ve created and order the catalog item via self service portal. If you followed part 1 you now have a fully functional Ansible Tower which we can add as… Read More »Register hosts to Satellite6 via CloudForms and Ansible Tower part 2
CloudForms is the single pane of glass for virtual machines, cloud instances, and baremetal servers provisioned via Satellite 6. Since we added support for Ansible Tower we can do a lot of magic as we can now call Ansible Tower via CloudForms. What does that mean for operations and orchestration? Let’s say we have the… Read More »Register hosts to Satellite6 via CloudForms and Ansible Tower part 1