ManageIQ Blog

Troubleshooting ManageIQ Authentication

The goal of this blog post is to provide a basic understanding of:

  1. ManageIQ authentication configurations
  2. How to troubleshoot the technologies supporting ManageIQ authentication.
  3. What to provide to engineering when an irresolvable ManageIQ authentication issue is encountered.

Automating CloudForms Appliance Deployment with Ansible

Red Hat CloudForms ships as an appliance to simplify deployment as much as possible – a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server with the appropriate software loaded, ready to be configured with a few basic configuration options. Traditionally, these servers are configured using the command line tool appliance_console. This is a simple, menu-based interface that allows you to configure the core functionality of the appliance and makes it exceptionally easy to do so. Unfortunately, menu-based interfaces don’t lend themselves to being automated easily. However, there is a solution!

All CloudForms appliances ship with another tool called appliance_console_cli. We can combine this tool with an Ansible playbook to automate the configuration of our appliance(s).

My First Contribution to ManageIQ

In this blog post, I am going to share my experience on how I made my first contribution to ManageIQ, the upstream open source project for Red Hat CloudForms. The post explains how I encountered and investigated an issue, and finally fixed it thereby sending my first “Pull Request” to ManageIQ repository.

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Announcing Gaprindashvili RC Release

On behalf of the ManageIQ team, we’re pleased to announce the RC release for ManageIQ Gaprindashvili! You can download the Gaprindashvili RC Release here

Last Week in ManageIQ: Wrapping up Bugs

Welcome to this week’s edition of LWIMIQ! It’s beginning to look a lot like the holiday season, and we sure have been as busy as :santa:’s elves with wrapping :gift: up bugs.

Last week in ManageIQ - Fixing bugs

Hi. I, ZitaNemeckova will tell you more about our effort to improve our codebase. It’s not only about fixing code but also about cleaning and deleting. If you never used static analysis tool to find dead methods this post is for you.

Announcing Gaprindashvili Beta2 Release

On behalf of the ManageIQ team, we’re pleased to announce the Beta2 release for ManageIQ Gaprindashvili! You can download the Gaprindashvili Beta2 Release here

Multi-tier Application Deployment using Ansible and CloudForms (Video)

This article is a follow up on our previous blog post VMware provisioning example] using Ansible, where we deployed a simple virtual machine on VMware using Ansible from the CloudForms service catalog. In this week’s demonstration, we go a step further and provision a multi-tier application on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Once provisioned, the application lifecycle, as well as all day 2 operations are performed from Red Hat CloudForms.