Clouds can really help your business. If, and it’s a big if, you can make it work for you. That’s where companies like Cloudify come in, with its open source business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform. Now, to make it even more powerful, you can use the Cloudify infrastructure automation platform with ServiceNow IT Operations Management (ITOM). ), part of its Now Platform digital workflow.
Cloudify enables you to trade online with your customers while fully integrating orders, pricing, product, and stock data with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite such as SAP, NetSuite, and Microsoft Dynamics. It also works with warehouse and accounting back office systems. With plugins, you can also leverage your existing toolchains such as Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes for more advanced automation capabilities.
Put it all together, and you get what Cloudify calls ‘Environment As A Service’ (EaaS). Nati Shalom, CTO and Founder of Cloudify sees EaaS as the next generation of DevOps. “It’s all about how to drive innovation and make many of the distributed systems as simple as local systems,” Shalom said.
Ultimately, the company says, EaaS will let you run applications across multiple cloud or data center platforms at the click of a button for premium multicloud infrastructure orchestration and automation.
Now, the Cloudify platform has expanded its reach again. It is now available in the ServiceNow Store. Using Cloudify with ITOM allows you to work with your development team to automatically adjust your cloud resource configuration.
This is done by validating resources through ServiceNow Cloud Configuration Governance (CCG). From there, you trigger remediation actions. These are performed automatically by Cloudify. Finally, they are deployed through ServiceNow or Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
The company says, “Developers can enjoy a self-service experience needed to quickly spin up and tear down dev/test environments with minimal effort, as well as simplify change management of production environments .”
The pair gives you the tools you need for an Agile-first approach to creating, sharing, and managing cloud and multi-cloud work environments for your cloud developers. On a day-to-day basis, the Now Platform acts as the workflow automation engine. At the same time, Cloudify handles environment creation and Day 2 management.
From a broader perspective, with Cloudify and ITOM, companies can accelerate their provisioning and management of multi-cloud infrastructure deployments with their DevOps and IT teams working together efficiently.
Specifically, Cloudify notes that pairing with ServiceNow makes it even easier:
- Regulate policies and automate compliance with multi-cloud tag configuration and standardization. With ITOM Management, IT teams can define configuration policies and tags, and identify violations. These can be arranged by ITOM Governance and Cloudify.
- Get DevOps and IT teams on the same page. It does this by using Cloudify to maintain the deployed environment while enabling IT operators to fix breaches through ServiceNow. All of this gives everyone a single pane of glass between CI/CD pipelines and ServiceNow actions.
- All of this reduces remediation downtime.
The result? “Developers are constantly being asked to move faster and push new features to production quickly,” said Brian Emerson, ServiceNow’s ITOM VP and GM in a press release. And this will allow them to keep up with demand. Ariel Dan, the CEO of Cloudify added, “Now DevOps can manage heterogeneous cloud environments at scale while following IT processes. Ultimately, this means that “an organization can manage end-customers environment and internal Dev/QA/Production environment more efficiently. “
And, isn’t managing and getting your enterprise cloud and its resources to work more effectively your end goal? Why, yes, yes, I think it is.
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