Now that you know how to build a hybrid cloud infrastructure by adding cloud and infrastructure providers, let's see how to provision resources in these providers from the Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine web console.
In this chapter, we will look into the steps required to provision instances in the Amazon EC2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform cloud providers. The steps for provisioning virtual machines as infrastructure providers are also similar.
The following topics are covered in this chapter:
Images
The provisioning process
Provisioning an EC2 instance
Provisioning an OpenStack instance
Introduction to catalogs and service catalogs