Preface

This book is an addendum to the Mastering Automation in CloudForms 4.2 and ManageIQ Euwe book, covering the new automate features and functionality available with CloudForms 4.5 & 4.6 (ManageIQ Fine & Gaprindashvili).

The author welcomes any feedback, suggestions for content, or notifications of errors, omissions or inaccuracies to pemcg@redhat.com.

Acknowledgements

Much of the content for this book has been taken and edited from various sources both inside and outside of Red Hat. Many people have contributed to the original articles and code samples, and have offered explanations and ideas to this addendum. The author would like to thank Christian Jung, Fabien Dupont, Franck Grosjean, Jeff Warnica, Ian Tewksbury, Brant Evans, Samson Wick, John Hardy, Brad Ascar, Greg McCullough, Madhu Kanoor, Bill Wei, Bill Fitzgerald, Tina Fitzgerald, Drew Uhlmann, Jason Ritenour, Kevin Morey, Victor Estival Lopez, Olive Power, Loic Avenel, Luke Couzens, Matthew Parkinson, Cameron Wyatt, Brett Thurber, and many others for their original work and support in the production of this book.

Conventions Used in This Addendum

The following typographical conventions are used in this book:

• Italic Indicates new terms, URLs, email addresses, filenames, and file extensions, path and object names within the Automate Datastore, Schema field values.

• Bold Indicates WebUI components, event names, Schema field names.

• Constant width Used for program listings, as well as within paragraphs to refer to program elements such as variable or function names, databases, data types, environment variables, statements, and keywords.

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