Implementation Best Practices for Red Hat CloudForms

Explore best practices for implementing Red Hat CloudForms in this comprehensive conference talk from the 2013 Red Hat Summit. Discover effective strategies for deploying CloudForms, managing existing virtualization and cloud providers, and deploying workloads using OpenShift Enterprise. Learn how to implement autoscaling for OpenShift Enterprise workloads using CloudForms control and automate features, and gain insights on integrating with third-party APIs. Delve into topics such as two-region architecture, catalog item types, provision VM examples, service dialogs, best fit placement, and custom buttons. Understand the CloudForms model, operations catalog, development catalog, policies, compliance, state machines, and the automation engine. Gain valuable knowledge on infrastructure as a service, post-provisioning techniques, and node count management in this informative session from the cloud readiness track.

Introduction
Agenda
Deploying CloudForms
Configuration
WebUI Zone
Two Region Architecture
Care and Feeding
Catalog Item Types
CloudForms Management Engine
Puppet Module
Provision VM
Example Template
Service Dialog
Tags
Environment Selection
Best Fit Placement
Customization
Openshift Broker
Catalog Services
Generic Services
Traditional View of CloudForms
CloudForms Model
Custom Buttons
Operations Catalog
Development Catalog
Order Service
Request Queue
View Services
View URL
Policies
Compliance
State Machine
Infrastructure as a Service
State Machines
Automate
Reskinned CloudForms
Control Policies
Automation Engine
Post Provisioning
Node Count
Summary