Cloudify is the bridge over the sea of complexity, allowing development, production and security teams to manage their operations through a single platform. With Cloudify, apps and infrastructure work better together, thereby improving developer efficiency and consistency between individuals and teams.
TEL AVIV, Israel (PRWEB)
August 18, 2022
Cloudify today announced the release of version 6.4 of its open source Cloudify DevOps automation platform that bridges the gap between applications and their cloud environment. Cloudify 6.4 introduces a simple approach for enabling platform engineering teams to turn their applications and infrastructure into a self-service environment in hours. Cloudify 6.4 also delivers improved remote execution capabilities for Day 2 operations management as well as a more simplified self-service experience for developers.
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*Cloudify 6.4 Highlights*
- Intelligent continuous update workflow—Cloudify 6.4 introduces a new, intelligent workflow to manage continuous update operations. This workflow encapsulates persistent update logic as part of the environment definition and provides a consistent interface that allows users to customize the way update operations are handled. update on a wide range of use cases. Cloudify 6.4 automatically detects which resources need to be updated—including Terraform modules, configuration inputs, in-place upgrades and management policies—and applies updates as needed. In addition, Cloudify 6.4 automatically triggers healing and recovery of failed resources.
- Integrated tools for pre-deployment management—Cloudify 6.4 integrates security and syntax validation (DevSecOps) and cost estimation tools as part of environment definition. This way platform teams can ensure consistency and avoid violating regulations and policies without becoming a bottleneck.
- New user interface—Cloudify 6.4 offers users a revamped experience that streamlines the process of acquiring an existing resource and turns it into a self-service environment.
- Out-of-the-box environments—More than 160 environments are ready to use out of the box. These environments—all managed through a single, unified service catalog—support a wide range of resources from all major cloud providers and include key infrastructure tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, CloudFormation, Azure ARM, Helm, Docker, Ansible and more.
- Enhancements for Terraform—Cloudify is specifically optimized for managing Kubernetes and Terraform-based environments. One of the major enhancements in Cloudify 6.4 is the provision of a Terraform Atlantis-compatible “Pull Request Automation” experience through a revised GitHub Actions integration and GUI-based Terraform module import utility that allows users to import their existing Terraform module from a local file or a Git repository and turn it into a self-service environment through a simple, step-by-step approach.
- ServiceNow integration—Cloudify 6.4 integrates natively with the ServiceNow® IT operations management (ITOM) platform, enabling platform teams and Cloud Centers of Excellence (CCoE) teams to have an end-to-end solution for planning, applying and scanning management policies within the platform. Cloudify 6.4 closes the loop between provisioning and continuous management by integrating ServiceNow ITOM policy management with the Cloudify action library, a remote implementation that can handle a wide range of remediation actions on infrastructure resources . This integration ensures that CI/CD pipeline operations and remediation tasks remain consistent and do not conflict with each other. To learn more about Cloudify’s integration with ServiceNow, watch this joint webinar.
***For a full list of new features, updates and upgrades in Cloudify 6.4, see the release notes***
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“What organizations desperately need today is a platform that enables apps and infrastructure to work better together in both legacy cloud environments as well as cloud-native environments, and that’s what Cloudify does,” said by Ariel Dan, CEO of Cloudify. “Cloudify’s environment-as-a-service technology streamlines workflows and integrates best-of-breed cloud tools throughout the application lifecycle, from developer self-service to automated operations of Day 2. Cloudify 6.4 features focus on remote execution; This release simplifies ‘environment-as-a-service’ to the point that DevOps and IT teams can now build and manage cloud infrastructure environments in much the same way as they build and manage applications .”
“Instead of creating platforms that are essentially bloated CMPs, as many do, our approach with Cloudify is different: we create an integration platform that allows teams to create a best-of-breed strategy,” explains Nati Shalom, founder and CTO of Cloudify. “Cloudify excels at handling remote implementation and environment management and comes equipped with out-of-the-box integration with best-of-breed tools for CI/CD integration, workflow approvals, expense tracking and management, DevSecOps, management and automated Day 2 operations. Cloudify is the bridge over the sea of complexity, allowing development, production and security teams to manage their operations through a single platform. With Cloudify, apps and infrastructure work better together, thereby improving developer efficiency and consistency between individuals and teams.”
*DevOps Scaling and Infrastructure Automation Made Easy with Cloudify*
Cloudify is the only solution named by Gartner as a leading solution for both infrastructure automation and scaling DevOps workflows in multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. Cloudify is set apart in the marketplace by its ability to manage multiple, complete development and production environments, rather than managing just one part of the stack.
*About Cloudify*
Founded in 2016, Cloudify is an open-source DevOps automation platform that delivers ‘Environment as a Service’ technology that packages infrastructure, technology, and existing automation tools into certified blueprints. Cloudify is designed to manage heterogeneous cloud environments at scale and to bridge the gap between DevOps and IT Service Management processes. Visit cloudify.co to learn more.
(1)Gartner, Market Guide for Infrastructure Automation Tools, 8 May 2020, ID G00719452
(2)Gartner, How to Scale DevOps Workflows in Multicluster Kubernetes Environments, 2 June 2022, ID G00764496
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