Explore best practices for implementing Red Hat CloudForms in this comprehensive conference talk from the 2013 Red Hat Summit. Discover effective strategies for deploying CloudForms, managing existing virtualization and cloud providers, and deploying workloads using OpenShift Enterprise. Learn how to implement autoscaling for OpenShift Enterprise workloads using CloudForms control and automate features, and gain insights on integrating with third-party APIs. Delve into topics such as two-region architecture, catalog item types, provision VM examples, service dialogs, best fit placement, and custom buttons. Understand the CloudForms model, operations catalog, development catalog, policies, compliance, state machines, and the automation engine. Gain valuable knowledge on infrastructure as a service, post-provisioning techniques, and node count management in this informative session from the cloud readiness track.