HERZLIYA, Israel, Nov. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Cloudify Platform Ltd., the award-winning cloud native orchestration platform, 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.
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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
Stay tuned for our event calendar where we will be taking a deep dive on each of these features to showcase how they are used in real world customer use cases.
Supporting Quote:
ARRIS
"As part of a Tier-1 Telco's initiative to digitize their networks, ARRIS was engaged to produce a solution for the media domain covering the three different enterprise video contribution networks that could deliver real-world use cases such as: service definitions for inclusion in catalogue, service provisioning, service assurance, and continuous video and network resource monitoring," says Chirag Trivedi, Vice President, Professional Services, ARRIS. "By building a solution based on Cloudify that deploys ONAP in a microservices architecture, it was possible to deliver abstraction via blueprints, plugins and APIs which simplified the integration of diverse domain controllers into a modern cloud native environment."
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