Chapter 1. Red Hat CloudForms Internals
This chapter highlights some of the challenges faced in managing hybrid cloud environments that contain a mix of private and public clouds and traditional virtualized infrastructure. It then introduces Red Hat CloudForms, its architecture, its components, and features that overcome these challenges.
The following topics are covered in this chapter:
- What is a cloud management platform?
- Hybrid cloud management challenges
- Introducing Red Hat CloudForms
- Architecture
- Components
- Capabilities
- Benefits
- Supported providers
- Types of provisioning
- The open source version of Red Hat CloudForms
At the time of writing this book, Red Hat CloudForms 3.1 is the latest version.
