Turbonomic connection

You can enable a cloud connection between Infrastructure Automation and Turbonomic to integrate the systems. You can use Turbonomic for capacity planning to help identify usage patterns, trends and the optimization of application resource usage to help you reduce waste and control costs while meeting application service level agreements (SLA). Turbonomic also provides insights and recommended actions based on multiple sources of data. With this integration, Turbonomic delivers insights directly to the Infrastructure Automation service management so that your DevOps personnel can act on the insights when needed.

With an integration set up between Infrastructure Automation and Turbonomic, you can take advantage of the following capabilities:

• You can use Turbonomic to monitor your cloud environment. This includes monitoring infrastructure provisioned through Infrastructure Automation.
• Infrastructure Automation can run multiple workflow steps by using Terraform and Ansible, which can include steps to update ServiceNow, issue notifications, and configuring the application inside the virtual machine (VM).
• Infrastructure Automation can run steps for the workflow, such as to resize the VMs and update the ServiceNow configuration management database (CMDB) as dictated by the parameters of the action recommended by Turbonomic.
• Turbonomic can monitor and identify VMs that can be resized to save resources while keeping the application SLA.
• Turbonomic can associate the VM to the Infrastructure Automation service that provisioned it by using ingested tags from the provisioned infrastructure.
• Turbonomic can invoke Infrastructure Automation REST API to resize the VM in a particular service instance by using a custom action script that is registered to Turbonomic and defined in a policy specific to the service.
• Turbonomic can view the updated VM, measure the performance, and ensure that the application SLA is being met with the changed configuration.

For Infrastructure Automation to access your Turbonomic environment, you must provide the value of the following Turbonomic cloud connection parameters to enable the integration:

• Turbonomic server URL - The authentication URL, which is used for the identification purposes. Use the format http://<IP_ADDRESS>.
• User Name - The user name for logging into the Turbonomic server.
• Password - The password for the provided user name.

For more information about these values and how to configure them, see Target Configuration.