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.

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.

Register today!

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!

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.

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

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.

Cloudify version 2.5.0 M5 (build 3986) is available for download through the early access page of our community site.  Cloudify 2.5.0 M5 is the next public milestone of our Cloudify 2.5.0 product line.

 Read the Release Notes of the 2.5.0 Early Access, please click here.

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

It’s been a while since our last general update.  Since our 2.2.release, just about a month ago, we’ve been working double-time to try and get you the latest release 2.3.0 in time for the holidays….and it’s here.

Meet Cloudify 2.3

 

 

• With version 2.3, we have a few more surprises up our sleeve, and some are quite significant - here’s a quick run through, and you can read the full blog post - Cloudify 2.3.0 Has Landed.

• Security and multi-tenancy
• Deployment isolation
• Dynamic configuration of cloud driver templates
• Cloud, application and service overrides
• Improved OpenStack support through JClouds 1.5.3 In 2.3, we were finally able to switch to JClouds, and consequently, also better support the full range of OpenStack configuration options and the Folsom release.
• Troubleshooting: When developing new recipes, Cloudify now allows you to ‘freeze’ the situation in case of recipe execution failure, and let you log in to the VMs to troubleshoot the failure.

 

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Even more new recipes, we’ve added a few more recipes to our Github repo recently and hope to add more soon, most notably:
 

 

• Twitter Storm
• Apache Zookeeper
• Vertx; and…
• Hadoop (using IBM’s BigInsights Hadoop distro). 

Stay tuned, there’s plenty more of where that came from.

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Last, but certainly not least… 

 

We have been baking up an exciting new project that brings you a Cloudify widget or player.  You can read about it in detail in the 2.3 blog post, but here’s the skinny of it:

It’s basically an embeddable, one click player for Cloudify recipes. The idea is to let users try out applications and frameworks using Cloudify and its recipes.

So check out the video, and wait for the launch, which is coming very soon.

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Happy holidays folks.  We hope these are enough goodies to bring in the New Year with some cheer. 

Today’s application stack is built out many popular OSS frameworks such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Scala, Play, Memcache, RabitMQ alongside the more traditional JEE stack which includes app servers such as Tomcat and JBoss. In this environment the same practices that we used to have in JEE centric world for managing and deploying our app are not relevant anymore. In this session, Nati introduced new open source frameworks based on Groovy for packaging your application, automating the scaling, failover, and more.  See the presentation below.

We’ve got quite a few events going on this week from Java & Groovy, through cloud, to MongoDB - so join us!

December 11th - San Francisco Java User Group 

A Groovy Kind of Java

Come on out to Say Media -180 Townsend St # 3, San Francisco, CA (map), to hear Nati Shalom discuss:

Today’s application stack is built out many popular OSS frameworks such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Scala, Play, Memcache, RabitMQ alongside the more traditional JEE stack which includes app servers such as Tomcat and JBoss. In this environment the same practices that we used to have in JEE centric world for managing and deploying our app are not relevant anymore. In this session we’ll introduce a new open source frameworks based on Groovy for packaging your application, automating the scaling, failover, and more.

December 12th - Up Conference 2012

At this leading cloud conference Nati Shalom will be presenting on “How to Build a Cloud Marketplace - the Easy Way”.  

GigaSpaces Cloudify is also nominated for the UpStart Best Big Data Solution 2012 award - which you can vote on at the conference.  So if you’re there, and think we deserve it - remember to show us some love.

Uri Cohen will be presenting this week at a MongoDB event on the topic of “Managing Your Mongo-Powered App on Any Cloud” - where you will learn how to easily deploy and manage complex mongo clusters in any environment.  The event will include other exciting sessions - Mongo everything, so check it out.