This project contains the labs material for the official Cloudify training course.

1. CLI Installation
2. Running Basic Blueprint Locally
3. Running NodeCellar Locally
4. Using Scripts in Lifecycle Events
5. Developing a Simple Plugin
6. Workflows
7. Manager Bootstrapping
8. Installing NodeCellar on Cloudify Manager
9. Monitoring
10. Security
11. Working with OpenStack

If you don't have a CLI VM provided to you, or you would like to use your own image:

• Use a CentOS 7.0 image

• Allow at least 1GB of RAM and 5GB of storage

• Make sure that iptables is disabled. This is not a requirement of the CLI per-se, but rather a requirement of the training labs; the labs involve using Cloudify in "local mode" to install applications locally, and in order to verify proper installation, these applications have to be accessible through their designated ports.

  • If you are using firewalld, stop it and mask it:

    sudo systemctl stop firewalld
    sudo systemctl mask firewalld
    

  • If you are using iptables-services, stop it and mask it:

    sudo systemctl stop iptables
    sudo systemctl mask iptables
    

• Make sure that the VM is connected to a security group that is very permissive (same reasoning as for iptables).

• Install unzip and git (needed for the labs; not Cloudify prerequisites)

  sudo yum -y install unzip git
  

If you don't have a Manager VM provided to you, or you would like to use your own image:

• Use a CentOS 7.0 image
• Ensure that the VM answers to the prerequisites documented in Cloudify's documentation website (http://docs.getcloudify.org/3.4.0/manager/prerequisites/), with the following exceptions:
  • The minimum amount of RAM should be 4GB.
  • The security group to which this VM is connected should have more permissive rules than the ones stated, because other labs (that depend on this one) install topologies on the very same VM as the Manager's. It is recommended to allow incoming traffic on all ports.
• Make sure that iptables is disabled. Similarly to the CLI VM's case, this is not a Cloudify requirement but a training material requirement.