In this chapter, we looked into the challenges that system administrators and DevOps personnel face in managing multiple environments spread across traditional virtualization and cloud platforms, and saw that the architecture and components of CloudForms have features that can solve this.

In a nutshell, Red Hat CloudForms is a heterogeneous cloud management platform that solves many operational challenges, not only for cloud infrastructures, but also for virtualized infrastructures from a unified platform. It addresses the capabilities that you should look for and much more.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to install and configure Red Hat CloudForms appliance on an OpenStack environment, access the browser-based user interface, and navigate around.