Red Hat CloudForms - Cutting VM Creation Time by 75% at General Mills

Learn how General Mills implemented Red Hat CloudForms to streamline virtual machine provisioning, reducing creation time by 75% and saving 200 work hours in a year. Explore strategies for lifecycle management, real-world implementation techniques, and valuable lessons learned. Discover the benefits of CloudForms, including automated workflows, request dialogs, and the automate engine. Gain insights into MongoDB container provisioning, state machines, and future plans for expanding automation capabilities. Understand the "crawl, walk, run" approach to implementation and access the Git repository for further resources.

Introduction
General Mills background
CloudForms POC
Why did you choose CloudForms
What are the benefits of CloudForms
What is CloudForms
How CloudForms works
Retirement workflow
Request dialog
Automate engine
VM requests
Extend retirement
What came in the box
Automating manual provisioning
MongoDB container provisioning
MongoDB state machine
Saving 1000 hours a year
Usage of CloudForms
Future plans
Crawl walk run
Git repo
Questions