Software Defined Data Center with Red Hat Cloud and Open Source IT Operations Management

Introduction

This chapter provides the overall introduction of the publication, including the reasoning behind its development, and a description of the Red Hat Cloud solution.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•1.1, “Introduction” on page 2

•1.2, “Why develop this publication” on page 2

•1.3, “Red Hat Cloud on bare metal managed by open systems” on page 2

•1.4, “About this publication” on page 10

1.1 Introduction

We work in IBM Services® and Red Hat, and over the years we stumbled across many teams that are under the same crossroad ...