Cloudforms
Delete Dynamic Resource Object form CloudForms
If you are in the situation where you cannot delete a DRO from the UI you can go and delete it from the rails console. I had the following Dynamic Resource Object Definition: As you can see I have 2 instances. How do you delete these instances? With both the API calls as well… Read More »Delete Dynamic Resource Object form CloudForms
CloudForms in AWS part 4
To round this up here a recording of smartstate in AWS with auto-remediation of a vulnerability (java) via policy and ansible inside.
CloudForms in AWS part 3
This will be the last part of the blog series but probably the most interesting one. When you launch a smartstate analysis you will see the following in you evm log files. [—-] I, [2018-03-11T16:12:10.941498 #3004:4f7130] INFO — : MIQ(ManageIQ::Providers::Amazon::CloudManager::Vm#raw_scan) NAME [Scan from Vm vmtosmartstate] SCAN [nil] [NilClass] [—-] I, [2018-03-11T16:12:11.068516 #3004:4f7130] INFO — : Job… Read More »CloudForms in AWS part 3
CloudForms in AWS part 2
This part of the CloudForms in AWS blog series will walk you through how to make sure that CloudForms reaches its full potential in AWS. IMPORTANT: If you want SmartState analysis to work you need to register your AWS account with the cloud access program. Use the link below to enable cloud access: https://engage.redhat.com/forms/cloud-access-registration Once… Read More »CloudForms in AWS part 2
CloudForms Ansible Tower Inventory fix
Unfortunately the latest version of Ansible Tower 3.2.1 is not able to connect to CloudForms due to a bug in the inventory file cloudforms.py If you need a fix for it until it is fixed downstream in the next tower release you can use mine (not supported of course) The PR is here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/31760 fix… Read More »CloudForms Ansible Tower Inventory fix
Red Hat Asia Tech Exchange – The Power of Red Hat Open Management
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… Read More »Red Hat Asia Tech Exchange – The Power of Red Hat Open Management
Red Hat Tech Exchange 2017 – Asia Pacific – The Power Of Integration
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… Read More »Red Hat Tech Exchange 2017 – Asia Pacific – The Power Of Integration
CloudForms 4.5 RHV 4.1 Management by Ansible Automation Inside (Part 2 Create a Button)
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… Read More »CloudForms 4.5 RHV 4.1 Management by Ansible Automation Inside (Part 2 Create a Button)
CloudForms 4.5 RHV 4.1 Management by Ansible Automation Inside (Part 1 Create Service Dialog)
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… Read More »CloudForms 4.5 RHV 4.1 Management by Ansible Automation Inside (Part 1 Create Service Dialog)