The results of the poll on the name of the J release are in. Vlastimil Jansa is the winner! Looking forward to all the exciting features that will come in the Jansa release. Thanks to all that voted - we had 69 total votes for the J-Release.

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

Red Hat CloudForms allows users to put both VM provisioning and Ansible Tower jobs in the same catalog bundle, with the intention of having that tower job of customizing the VM that was just provisioned. However, it’s not as simple as adding a VM catalog item, and then an Ansible Tower catalog item. This post will guide you through the nuances of utilizing Tower jobs in CloudForms step by step.

Why can’t I just use Update on Launch when CloudForms is a source in Red Hat Tower’s inventory?

You can, as long as you don’t mind the jobs not being concurrent for that inventory. If you have this option checked, then whatever concurrent jobs you have, will wait, since Tower does not update the inventory while a job is being executed.

However, if you wish to have concurrent jobs utilizing CloudForms, please continue reading this blog post. This is the most efficient method utilizing CloudForms I’ve run across and we are currently using this in our lab environment for reproducers in North America for CloudForms CEE team. A caveat of this is that you cannot have 2 VMs of the same name in your CloudForms environment, if you do, the limit will potentially be set to all of the VMs that match that name.

So how do I update the inventory for the newly provisioned host to Tower if we’re not updating on launch?

We will be utilizing an ansible playbook to use an API call to ad hoc add a host to the CloudForms inventory in Ansible Tower

What roles do I need to have enabled on the worker appliance for this to work?

• Automate
• Embedded Ansible
• Provider Inventory
• Provider Operations

You will also need to add the appropriate VM provider and Ansible Tower provider

Setting up the repository for embedded ansible

Go to Automation > Ansible > Repositories > Add New Repository, and use the following URL:

Vote for the J-Release!!! Here is the Poll on talk.manageiq.org

On behalf of the ManageIQ team, we’re pleased to announce the Beta1 release for ManageIQ Ivanchuk! You can download the Ivanchuk Beta1 Release here

We’ve just built Hammer-9. This release contains bug fixes, UI tweaks, and stabilization. Here are just a few of the things added since Hammer-8 release:

Dear ManageIQ community,

We’ve just built Hammer-8. This release contains bug fixes, UI tweaks, and stabilization. Here are just a few of the things added since Hammer-7 release:

We’ve just built Hammer-7. This release contains bug fixes, UI tweaks, and stabilization. Here are just a few of the things added since Hammer-6 release:

Ansible continues to grow and is the strategic automation engine for Red Hat’s business. Having a solid and constantly improving integration with Ansible is key for CloudForms’ future success.

Ansible Tower Workflows are widely used in by the industry to orchestrate and govern interactions between different playbooks. CloudForms has been able to run Ansible Tower Jobs since its 4.1 release. Starting with CloudForms 4.7, we will expand this support and will be able to utilize Workflows from the Service Catalog.