Sangram Rath - Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

Sangram Rath is a Co-founder and cloud architect at Voverc and has 10 years of IT experience, primarily in the cloud computing and virtualization domains. He is also a freelance consultant and trainer and works on delivering solutions and trainings on OpenStack, Microsoft Azure, and AWS. In the past, he has worked for companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Microland, Mphasis, Bristlecone, and a start-up called CloudThat Technologies.

He took his first computer lesson at the age of 6 and knew that this was where he wanted to head. Sangram has a bachelor's degree in computer applications from Bangalore University and many technical certifications, such as Mirantis Certified Administrator on OpenStack; Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer: Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, VMware Certified Professional; and many more to his credit.

He is an avid reader and a foodie. He loves traveling and capturing moments through a lens. When he's not working, he loves spending time with his pet Labrador, Junior, in his hometown of Jeypore, Odisha, India.

I would like to thank my family and friends for the support and encouragement.

Kyung Huh is a senior consultant at Red Hat and is based in Korea. He has been working with Linux and open source software for more than 15 years as an instructor and a consultant. He has a lot of experience in implementing virtualization and cloud infrastructures such as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat OpenStack Platform on the field.

Marcus Young recently graduated with a degree in computer science and mathematics. Then he got involved in system administration and DevOps. He currently works in software automation using open source tools and technologies. His hobbies include playing ice hockey and homebrewing beer. He also enjoys hardware projects based on microcontrollers and single-board computers.

He has written Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS , Packt Publishing .

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Preface

Cloud adoption has grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years and so have the challenges in managing different cloud providers and the existing virtualized infrastructure. Enterprises end up managing these environments separately, causing management and cost overhead.

In comes Red Hat CloudForms, a unified management platform for both your cloud and virtual infrastructures. Red Hat CloudForms is built using the open source project ManageIQ, and is packed with added capabilities and enterprise benefits that Red Hat provides, such as subscriptions, updates, and support.

Red Hat CloudForms supplements your existing infrastructurewhich consists of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and VMware vSpherewith advanced management and automation capabilities, chargeback, life cycle management, control and governance, capacity planning, and optimization. It also supports public cloud infrastructures, such as Amazon EC2.

In this book, we will explore its architecture, components, and feature sets. You will learn how to install and configure Red Hat CloudForms, build a hybrid cloud environment, and use the individual features. By the end, you should have practical knowledge of how to work with Red Hat CloudForms.

What this book covers

, Red Hat CloudForms Internals , highlights some of the challenges faced in managing a hybrid cloud environment, introduces Red Hat CloudForms, and provides information about its architecture, components, and features. They provide a unified management platform.

, Installing Red Hat CloudForms on Red Hat OpenStack , shows you how to deploy CloudForms in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack environment as an instance; perform initial configuration tasks, such as setting the hostname, network parameters, and time zone; set up an internal PostgreSQL database; and start the management engine process.

, Building a Hybrid Cloud Environment Using Red Hat CloudForms , explains how to build a hybrid cloud by adding providers and viewing and editing provider information after adding. We also take a look at provisioning dialogs, which are used to raise a provisioning request.