Red Hat CloudForms is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering that builds upon a collection of more than 60 open source projects. CloudForms include application lifecycle management capabilities as well as the capability to create hybrid public and private clouds from the broadest range of computing resources with unique portability across physical, virtual and cloud computing resources.
Red Hat CloudForms uses the following technologies:
- CloudForms Cloud Engine: The CloudForms Cloud Engine is responsible for all cloud resource management.
- CloudForms Application Engine: The CloudForms Application Engine provides template-based management of applications.
- CloudForms System Engine: CloudForms System Engine operationally manages running systems across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
- CloudForms Cloud Services: CloudForms Cloud Services provide the consistent functionality across varied cloud environments for a wide variety of service such as storage and availability