Mastering Cloudforms Automation: An Essential Guide for Cloud Administrators

Learn how to work with the Automate feature of CloudForms, the powerful Red Hat cloud management platform that lets you administer your virtual infrastructure, including hybrid public and private clouds. This practical hands-on introduction shows you how to increase your operational efficiency by automating day-to-day tasks that now require manual input.

Throughout the book, author Peter McGowan provides a combination of theoretical information and practical coding examples to help you learn the Automate object model. With this CloudForms feature, you can create auto-scalable cloud applications, eliminate manual decisions and operations when provisioning virtual machines and cloud instances, and manage your complete virtual machine lifecycle.

In six parts, this book helps you:

• Learn the objects and concepts for developing automation scripts with CloudForms Automate
• Customize the steps and workflows involved in provisioning virtual machines
• Create and use service catalogs, items, dialogs, objects, bundles, and hierarchies
• Use CloudForm’s updated workflow to retire and delete virtual machines and services
• Orchestrate and coordinate with external services as part of a workflow
• Explore distributed automation processing as well as argument passing and handling

學習如何使用CloudForms的自動化功能，這是一個強大的Red Hat雲管理平台，讓您管理虛擬基礎設施，包括混合公有雲和私有雲。這本實用的實作導引將向您展示如何通過自動化日常任務來提高運營效率，這些任務現在需要手動輸入。

在本書中，作者Peter McGowan提供了理論信息和實際編碼示例的結合，幫助您學習CloudForms的自動化對象模型。通過這個CloudForms功能，您可以創建自動可擴展的雲應用程序，消除在虛擬機和雲實例供應時的手動決策和操作，並管理完整的虛擬機生命周期。

本書分為六個部分，幫助您：
- 學習使用CloudForms Automate開發自動化腳本的對象和概念
- 自定義虛擬機供應的步驟和工作流程
- 創建和使用服務目錄、項目、對話框、對象、捆綁和層次結構
- 使用CloudForm的更新工作流程來退役和刪除虛擬機和服務
- 作為工作流程的一部分，協調和統籌外部服務
- 探索分佈式自動化處理以及參數傳遞和處理。