by Tomas Nevar (tomas@lisenet.com)
- Perform initial configuration of the CloudForms Appliance.
- Configure CloudForms database and network settings.
- Perform initial CloudForms configuration and configure server roles.
- Connect to one or more resource providers.
- Connect to a Red Hat Virtualization infrastructure provider.
- Connect to a Red Hat OpenStack Platform cloud provider.
- Configure authentication and security.
- Create and utilize tenants.
- Create and utilize users, groups, and roles.
- Selectively grant access to virtual systems.
- Provision virtual systems.
- Provision virtual machines.
- Create provisioning key pairs.
- Create volumes and assign them to virtual machines.
- Use cloud-init to customize virtual machines.
- Perform other management tasks.
- Create and apply SmartTags.
- Configure chargeback reporting.
- Configure reporting.
- Perform drift analyses.
- Configure alerts.
Product Documentation for Red Hat CloudForms 4.7 (General Configuration, Appliance Hardening Guide)
Basic configuration of the appliance is done via SSH.
$ ssh root@cfme.lab.example.com
Launch the configuration manager:
# appliance_console
Follow the on-screen instructions.
Note that it is advisable to change the default root password. Continuing to use the default password leaves the appliance vulnerable to any user attempting to gain root access.
Use the web interface.
Settings → Configuration
Red Hat CloudForms uses a unique admin user to control all functions in the web-based user interface. After installing the appliance, change the default password of the admin to restrict administrative access to the appliance's UI.
Settings → Configuration → Access Control → Users → Administrator
Configuration → Edit this User → Change Password
Red Hat CloudForms 4 supports multiple providers.
Compute → Infrastructure → Providers → Configuration → Add a New Infrastructure Provider
Select Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager as the Type.
Add host creadentials:
Compute → Infrastructure → Hosts
Configure SmartProxy Affinity to allow the Red Hat CloudForms appliance to perform SmartState analysis.
Settings → Configuration → then selectZone: Default Zone (current) → SmartProxy Affinity
Check Server: EVM [1000000000001] which will check all resources managed by it.
Compute → Clouds → Providers → Configuration → Add a New Cloud Provider
Select OpenStack as the provider. Click the Events tab to review the two available event endpoints CloudForms can use to gather metrics from the environment. Make sure Ceilometer is selected.
Compute → Containers → Providers → Configuration → Add a New Containers Provider
Select OpenShift Enterprise as the Type. You will need to generate an authentication token for CloudForms. Also configure the metrics collection setting by clicking the Hawkular tab.
Since CloudForms 4.0, all user operations are performed within the context of a tenant. The default top-level tenant is known as tenant zero, and all of the out-of-the-box groups are members of this tenant.
Tenants can have projects as children.
Settings → Configuration → Access Control → Tenants
Users must belong to a group. Each group has a role, a tenant and filters assigned to it.
A role is applied to a group and defines what users can do with each product feature that is visible on the web interface.
Settings → Configuration → Access Control → Roles → Configuration menu → Add a new Role
Settings → Configuration → Access Control → Groups → Configuration menu → Add a new Group
Settings → Configuration → Access Control → Users → Configuration menu → Add a new User
List all VMs:
Compute → Infrastructure → Virtual Machines
Select the VM that you want to grant access to, and then set the owner to some user:
Configuration → Set Ownership
Compute → Infrastructure → Virtual Machines → Lifecycle → Provision VMs
Provisioning VMs using a cloud provider:
Compute → Clouds → Instances → Lifecycle → Provision Instances
Compute → Clouds → Key Pairs → Configuration → Add a New Key Pair
Compute → Clouds → Volumes → Configuration → Add a New Cloud Volume
Cloud-Init can be used when provisioning virtual machines that have been deployed using a template. Note tha Cloud-Init files use YAML syntax.
Compute → Infrastructure → PXE → Customization Templates → Configuration → Add a New Customization Template
SmartTags are used during automation, compliance testing and provisioning. Note: tags may be case sensitive.
Settings → Configuration → Settings accordion → CFME Region: Region 1 [1] → Red Hat Training Categories tab
Click anywhere in the table's first row to create a new category.
Settings → Configuration → Settings accordion → CFME Region: Region 1 [1] → Red Hat Training Tags tab
Create tags in the category.
Chargeback rates can either be set for Compute or Storage. Set chargeback rates:
Cloud Intel → Chargeback → Rates
Assign the new chargeback rates to virtual machines that belong to the default tenant.
Cloud Intel → Chargeback → Assignments
Cloud Intel → Reports → All Reports → Configuration → Add a new Report
To perform a SmartState analysis, CloudForms requires a running SmartProxy with visibility to the storage location of the virtual machine.
If at least two sets of SmartState analysis data exist for a virtual machine, those data points can be compared to spot changes. This is referred as drift reporting.
Some predefined alerts are available with CloudForms.
Control → Explorer → Alerts → Add a New Alert
Service → Requests
The Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) host needs to be active to start the course.