The CloudForms 4.1 release (June ’16) delivered a new format for the CloudForms appliance: as a container in docker format. CloudForms has led the way by offering the appliance in several different virtualization and cloud formats, such as:
Red Hat Virtualization
Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft SCVMM (Hyper-v)
VMware vSphere
With the new CloudForms container you can now host CloudForms on:
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3
Red Hat Atomic Host (7.2 or higher)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.2 or higher)
Anywhere using docker
This is really ground breaking for a cloud management platform, as Container technology brings additional levels of portability, scalability and security.
Another great benefit is the simplicity to instantiate the container.
NOTE: Red Hat CloudForms 4.1 availability as a container image is currently a TECHNICAL PREVIEW, therefore is UNSUPPORTED for production use. See Technology Preview Features Support Scope for more information. You can obtain the Red Hat CloudForms container image from https://registry.access.redhat.com.
Here are the various ways you can instantiate CloudForms across the different container platforms available.
Red Hat Atomic Host
Install Red Hat Atomic Host.
Log in via SSH to your Atomic Host.
Download the CloudForms container:
# atomic install cloudforms/cfme4:latest
Run the CloudForms container:
# atomic run cloudforms/cfme4:latest
Alternatively you can also use the docker command to run the CloudForms container:
# docker run –privileged -di -p 80:80 -p 443:443 cloudforms/cfme4:latest
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
Log in via SSH to your Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
Register your system with Red Hat:
# subscription-manager register –username=<rhnuser> –password=<pwd>
# subscription-manager list –available
# subscription-manager attach –pool=<pool_id>
# subscription-manager repos –enable=rhel-7-server-extras-rpms
# subscription-manager repos –enable=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
Install docker and needed dependencies:
# yum install docker device-mapper-libs device-mapper-event-libs
# systemctl start docker.service
# systemctl enable docker.service
Run the CloudForms container:
# docker run –privileged -di -p 80:80 -p 443:443 cloudforms/cfme4:latest
Login using a browser to http://<hostname>
Anywhere with docker
Install docker.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/docker and amend the Red Hat registry to the ADD_REGISTRY key:
ADD_REGISTRY=’–add-registry registry.access.redhat.com’
Restart the docker service.
Execute the following command:
# docker run –privileged -di -p 80:80 -p 443:443 cloudforms/cfme4:latest
Lastly….SSH Access
Execute the following command to obtain a bash prompt on the CloudForms container to do things like import items or view log files:
# sudo docker exec -i -t <container ID/name> /bin/bash
You will be given access under /var/www/miq/vmdb path.
Quelle: CloudForms
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