What you need for this book

To be able to perform the steps in this book, you will need access to the Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine OpenStack Virtual Appliance, which can be downloaded from https://access.redhat.com/ if you have a subscription. Although the examples in this book use the OpenStack version of the CloudForms Management Engine Appliance, other versions, such as the ones available for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and VMware vSphere, can also be used to install Red Hat CloudForms.

Alternatively, you can also use the open source version, called ManageIQ. However, certain features may or may not work. ManageIQ can be downloaded from http://manageiq.org/download/.

You will also, of course, need admin (or root) access to an OpenStack environment or a virtualized environment, such as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization or VMware vSphere, to be able to deploy the CloudForms appliance.

Some examples may have additional requirements, such as access to an Amazon Web Services account.