Cloudify Platform Ltd. has shipped version 4.5 of its open source software
today with new features that bring cloud native and DevOps practices to the
networking layer. Gartner says that intent-based networking is the next big
thing on the horizon, as it "helps to plan, design and implement/operate
networks that can improve network availability and agility."
Cloudify's declarative approach to orchestration supports true intent-based
orchestration capabilities. Through its closed loop automation & continuous
deployment capabilities, Cloudify significantly simplifies the automation of
formerly manually-managed, complex systems & networks. Get started with the
latest version here.
The Cloudify platform is deployed and trusted by some of the largest
organizations around the globe, helping to modernize and transform systems and
networks from legacy technology to new cloud native concepts, without
discarding previous technology investments.
Key Highlights in Cloudify 4.5
Intent-Based Orchestration - Cloudify 4.5 simplifies the automation of complex systems through complete
abstraction of applications and networks from the underlying infrastructure.
What to look forward to:
- Closed-loop automation for recovery, remediation scaling, and continuous
workflow updates
- Continuous deployment through the deployment update feature automatically
detecting only the changes that need to be applied to the system to meet the
desired state
- Pluggable actionable events on workflow executions allowing users to run
operations on specific workflow events, and Cloudify comes with out of the box
SNMP traps on these events
Pluggable & Agentless Monitoring
What to look forward to:
- Version 4.5 includes out of the box integration with Nagios as the
monitoring and policy engine, to enable agentless monitoring by tracking SNMP
events and traps, to simplify monitoring of existing network appliances that do
not support agent-based monitoring.
Cloud Native & Large Scale Deployments - Cloudify 4.5 comes with deeper support for Kubernetes designed to support
extreme scale and high performance environments.
What to look forward to:
- Support for bare-metal or libvirt infrastructure on top of the most popular
clouds, as well as federation for edge and low-latency geographical
distribution
- New pluggable networking support for popular Kubernetes networking projects
such as Flannel, Calico, and Weave
Manager Security & Multi-Cloud Orchestration - Cloudify 4.5 also comes with a completely new and innovative approach to
multi-cloud orchestration through more native support of Azure ARM, Amazon
Cloud Formation, and Terraform for infrastructure-level orchestration.
What to look forward to:
- Encryption of all external and internal communication to and from the
manager along with the secret store
- New Kerberos authentication to ensure maximum isolation of every execution
- Dynamic management of multiple networks - for added network isolation
between different users and deployments
Network Orchestration - Cloudify 4.5 introduces extensive cloud-network automation for all major
clouds, that simplifies the automation of Enterprises and CSP network access
between private and public clouds, as well as integrating with existing
networking environments.
What to look forward to:
- New Cloudify Integrations for Popular Network Services
- Oracle SBC Plugin
- Broadsoft Plugin
- Multi-cloud Swift3 Plugin
- Benu Networks Plugin
- Juniper Contrail Plugin
- iDirect OSS/BSS Integration
- Netnumber TITAN VNFM using Ansible & Execution plugins
- Nuage SD-WAN Integration