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 infrastructure—which consists of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and VMware vSphere—with 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.