Cloudify Engineering

The Cloudify Player in Action at HP Discover

cloudify-engineering — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:08:24 +0300

At this year’s HP Discover, Nati Shalom lit up the screen with his demo of the Cloudify Player, showing just how easy it is to demo an app through this new user-friendly, hassle-free tool.

Take even your most complex apps to the cloud at the click of a button. Check out Nati’s blog post with an intro to the Cloudify Player and its applications.

Enjoy!

Big Data on OpenStack slide deck from Cloud Expo East

cloudify-engineering — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:47:46 +0300

Nati Shalom gave a great talk yesterday at Cloud Expo East on “Big Data on OpenStack,” showing how to manage your big data applications on the OpenStack cloud using Cloudify.

Check out his slides from the presentation below.

Enjoy!

Join us at this week's events in the US!

cloudify-engineering — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:02:33 +0300

The Cloudify team will be on the ground this week at the Cloud Expo East event in New York’s Javits Center Monday through Thursday, with Nati Shalom giving a talk “Big Data on OpenStack” at 8:15am on Tuesday. For a sneak peak of Nati’s talk, check out his recent blog post - Big Data on OpenStack.

Up next, the team will be at the Venetian Hotel in sunny Las Vegas at HP Discover, announcing our recent launch of the Cloudify Player. Stop by the booth for a quick demo of the player and see Cloudify in action!

We hope to see you there!

It's the App, Stupid! Uri Cohen's presentation from OpenStack Israel

cloudify-engineering — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 12:55:56 +0300

Last week’s OpenStack Israel was a big hit! Uri Cohen gave a great talk to a packed house.

Check out the slide deck below from his presentation “It’s the App, Stupid!” on Orchestration, DevOps Automation and What’s in Between.

Tomorrow at OpenStack Israel - See you there!

cloudify-engineering — Sun, 26 May 2013 14:26:50 +0300

Tomorrow is the big day for OpenStack Israel! With over 350 attendees and a record number of international speakers this is one event not to miss! Attendees will get a chance to meet with top industry leaders and interact with fellow OpenStack users and enthusiasts. They will hear from keynote speakers, such as Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, and will be able to dive deeper into OpenStack technology in a variety of technical sessions.

Take a look at all of the exciting speakers on the event agenda.

Our very own Uri Cohen is in the line up for his talk “Building your own OpsWorks with Chef, Cloudify, Heat/OpenStack” in track 2 of the technical sessions. Can’t wait!

We look forward to seeing you there tomorrow!

Meet the Cloudify Player – getting your apps on the cloud at the click of a button

cloudify-engineering — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:59:46 +0300

We are excited to introduce to you the Cloudify Player, a lightweight widget that enables a quick and hassle-free way to demo new frameworks or deploy your apps on the HP Cloud or the cloud of your choice. All you have to do is click a button. Pretty cool, huh?

Open source project owners can embed the widget on their site, providing a simple test-drive experience for their users.

Here’s how it works. The user accesses the widget either directly through the Cloudify Player page or from the embedded widget on the project owner’s site. The user clicks the play button, and sits back, relaxes and watches their app deploy on their cloud of choice right before their eyes. Behind the scenes, the Player communicates with a widget server that manages a pool of virtual machines deployed on the cloud, each “bootstrapped” with a running Cloudify manager. When a user click the “Play” button, the server instantly borrows a VM from the pool, connects to the Cloudify manager that runs on it over REST, issuing the recipe installation command. The application or tool is then deployed and installed on the server, providing the user with a hassle-free demo.

The Cloudify Player takes you from simple trial to full production in a matter of minutes. Check it out today!

For more information about the Player, please see Uri Cohen’s blog post Introducing the Cloudify Player as well as Nati Shalom’s blog post Using the Cloudify Player as an Open Source Framework for Building Your Own Cloud Application Marketplace on OpenStack.

Send us your feedback and let us know if you have any questions.

Enjoy!

How to Debug Cloudify Recipes

cloudify-engineering — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:40:00 +0300

Check out our latest tutorial showing how to debug your Cloudify recipes.

Questions and feedback are always welcomed. Visit our Forum to join the conversation.

Feeling Groovy

cloudify-engineering — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:31:00 +0300

A Groovy Kind of Java

Check out Sayeret Lambda’s upcoming meetup with Cloudify’s Barak Merimovich.

A domain-specific language (DSL) is a programming language or specification language dedicated to a particular problem domain, a particular problem representation technique, and/or a particular solution technique. Cloudify, the open-source PaaS stack, uses a Groovy-based DSL to define ‘recipes’ which include all of the information required to run a service in the cloud, including lifecycle, monitoring, scaling and more. The Groovy DSL is integrated into the Java based Cloudify stack.

In this talk Barak will discuss why we chose to use a DSL, and why Groovy specifically, and how the DSL is implemented.

When: Tuesday, May 7th at 6:30 PM

Where: Google Campus Tel Aviv - Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon Street (26th Floor), Tel Aviv, Israel (map)

See you there!

Install an application on the HP cloud and store its data on S3 with Cloudify

cloudify-engineering — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:21:20 +0300

We’ve enhanced the MySQL recipe and it now enables users to install MySQL on any cloud and store the database dump in Amazon S3.

Here’s a short video that shows how to use it.

Let us know if you have any questions @cloudifysource

Cloudify 2.5.0 is Here!

cloudify-engineering — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:24:36 +0300

The Cloudify 2.5.0 GA is now available for download! With this release we bring you new capabilities and enhancements to the user experience. From block storage service to installation of recipes through the Web GUI, you won’t want to miss 2.5.

Check out the full blog post “Cloudify 2.5 is GA” with information about the release, or have a look at the release notes.

So dive on in and give it a try. As always, we’d love to hear your feedback.

How to Install a Recipe from the Cloudify Web GUI

cloudify-engineering — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:32:09 +0300

In the next few days, we will launch Cloudify 2.5 with new and improved features and updates. One of those features is the recipe repository. It allows you to “mirror” any git repository, letting the Cloudify manager clone it to its local disk and expose all the recipes it contains using the web console. You can then browse these recipes directly from the web console, easily modify files and install services and applications with a single click.

Check out this short video to get a glimpse.

Hear what's new in OpenStack technology at OpenStack Israel May 27

cloudify-engineering — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:04:50 +0300

Following the OpenStack Summit in Portland this April, the OpenStack discussion continues in Israel on May 27th, 2013. The 3rd OpenStack Israel is a one-day event featuring latest updates and case studies in OpenStack technology. On the agenda for discussion will be the then-recent OpenStack Grizzly release, set for release on April 4^th. A summary of the updates as well as the release notes are available online. Register now to join the event!

Key figures behind the event are OpenStack Foundation, IGT Cloud and GigaSpaces, with support from Rackspace, Red Hat, IBM and other international organizations. OpenStack Foundation’s Executive Director Jonathan Bryce will be a keynote speaker at the event, traveling to Israel to take part in the action. Bryce has spent his career building the cloud, having previously been a founder of the Rackspace Cloud. He has been a major driver of OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative.

Mac Devine, Director and CTO, Cloud Portfolio, IBM Global Technology Services will also be a keynote speaker at this event. With IBM’s recent announcement of its shift towards open source cloud services and software through the use of OpenStack, OpenStack Israel is an excellent forum to discuss IBM’s move.

OpenStack Israel also welcomes Mark McClain of DreamHost’s Cloud Team who will travel to Israel to speak at the event.

The OpenStack Israel Committee is a group of technology and management professionals with years of experience as strategists, developers, bloggers and leaders in the cloud space. The team members are Nati Shalom of GigaSpaces, Avner Algom of IGT Cloud, Shlomo Swidler of Orchestratus, Uri Cohen of GigaSpaces, Koby Holzer of Liveperson and Samuel Bercovici of Radware.

Call for Papers is open until April 15. If you would like to speak at OpenStack Israel’s third conference, submit your proposal today.

Following the event, a three day training session will be held by StackOps Technologies, a native OpenStack company. In this training, attendees will be introduced to the latest OpenStack cloud software Grizzly release and learn how to deploy their own OpenStack environment. Sign up to secure your spot in the training.

Looking forward to a great event!

Below are some slides from the last OpenStack Israel event. Take a look!

Automating your OpenStack environment with Chef, Puppet and Cloudify from Nati Shalom

Configuring HP Cloud driver in Cloudify

cloudify-engineering — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:56:46 +0200

Check out this short video that shows how easy it is to configure the HP Cloud driver with Cloudify.

All you need to do is download and unzip the Cloudify distribution zip, then set Cloudify’s cloud driver file that corresponds with the cloud provider that you use.

Feel free to test it out yourself - visit www.cloudifysource.org

Big Data in the Cloud presentation from New York's AWS User Group Meetup

cloudify-engineering — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:24:43 +0200

Check out Ali Hodroj’s presentation from the NYC AWS Meetup this week to see how Cloudify makes it possible to deploy, manage, monitor and scale your big data apps in the cloud.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us @cloudifysource.

Cloudify version 2.5.0 RC (build 3993) is available for download!

cloudify-engineering — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:50:03 +0200

The Cloudify version 2.5.0 RC (build 3993) is available for download through the early access page of our community site. Cloudify 2.5.0 RC is a public Milestone of the Cloudify 2.5.0 product line.

Check out the Release Notes of the 2.5.0 Early Access.

For any questions, reach out to us via our forum or via Twitter - @cloudifysource.

Big Data Apps in the Cloud at New York's AWS User Group Meetup

cloudify-engineering — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:06:53 +0200

Looking forward to Ali Hodroj’s presentation “Big Data Apps in the Cloud: What It Really Takes” tomorrow at NYC Amazon Web Services User Group’s meetup.

The event will be held Tuesday, March 19 at DUMBO Startup Lab (68 Jay St. Suite 718 Brooklyn, NY).

Abstract: The massive computing and storage resources that are needed to support big data applications make on-demand, elastic cloud environments an ideal fit. However, managing your big data app on the cloud is no walk in the park - configuration, orchestration, H/A, auto-scaling are all quite complex when it comes to choosing the right cloud for you, whether it’s public, private or a hybrid cloud - which is where Cloudify and Eucalyptus come together. In this session, you’ll learn how to deploy, manage, monitor and scale your big data apps on public clouds such as EC2 and private clouds such as the open source Eucalyptus cloud platform, as well as easily test drive your apps locally and then migrate the workload to Amazon Web Services EC2.

To register, follow this link: http://www.meetup.com/AWSnewyork/events/107771492/

Hope to see you there!

Install Elasticsearch with Cloudify on any cloud

cloudify-engineering — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:08:29 +0200

Elasticsearch gives your application a fast and painless real-time search solution with a completely free search schema. Cloudify enables you to install any number of Elasticsearch instances on any cloud without changing your code at all.

After the installation, Cloudify can automatically scale your application from one machine to hundreds.

Here’s a video that shows a demo of how to install Elasticsearch with Cloudify on any cloud.

Running Play Framework Apps on any Cloud with Cloudify

cloudify-engineering — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:00:31 +0200

When it comes to running Play Framework apps on the cloud, there are many great options; one of those options is Cloudify. Read Uri Cohen’s post on the Typesafe blog about how developers can deploy their apps on the cloud with Cloudify. And there’s a bonus - you can give the Play framework recipe a test drive using the all new Cloudify Player (just scroll down the post and hit the play button).

How to configure the EC2 cloud driver in Cloudify

cloudify-engineering — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:00:56 +0200

Cloudify can run in your cloud environment out of the box, with no need for any special integration.

All you need to do is to download and unzip the Cloudify distribution zip, and then set the Cloudify cloud driver file that corresponds to the cloud provider that you use. It’s that simple.

Here’s a short tutorial video that demonstrates how easy it is to configure the EC2 Cloud driver in Cloudify - and you can of course do this with any cloud.

Feel free to ping us if you have any questions.

Big Data in the Cloud - Nati Shalom's presentation from #CloudMafia with #Eucalyptus

cloudify-engineering — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:34:02 +0200

Below are the slides from last night’s Cloud Mafia event - Scaling and Managing Big Data Apps in the Cloud with @natishalom and @andyknosp. #cloud #bigdata #aws

We would just like to apologize again for the technical glitches with streaming live - feel free to reach out if you like the slides and want a guided tour.

Scaling and Managing Big Data Apps in the Cloud from Nati Shalom