{"id":1676,"date":"2017-04-26T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2017-04-26T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:39:22","slug":"cloudify-releases-orchestration-first-cloud-management-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/cloudify-releases-orchestration-first-cloud-management-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudify Releases Orchestration-First Cloud Management Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1677\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2017\/04\/Cloudify-Releases-Orchestration-First-Cloud-Management-Platform.jpg\" alt=\"Cloudify Releases Orchestration-First Cloud Management Platform\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2017\/04\/Cloudify-Releases-Orchestration-First-Cloud-Management-Platform.jpg 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2017\/04\/Cloudify-Releases-Orchestration-First-Cloud-Management-Platform-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2017\/04\/Cloudify-Releases-Orchestration-First-Cloud-Management-Platform-768x336.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2017\/04\/Cloudify-Releases-Orchestration-First-Cloud-Management-Platform-600x263.jpg 600w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2017\/04\/Cloudify-Releases-Orchestration-First-Cloud-Management-Platform-180x79.jpg 180w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2017\/04\/Cloudify-Releases-Orchestration-First-Cloud-Management-Platform-400x175.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>On Wednesday, Cloudify unveiled a new version of their open source multi-cloud management software, Cloudify 4. The tool, a full-featured Cloud Management Platform (CMP), boasts new updates for app developers and power users.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudify 4 reportedly takes an \u201corchestration first\u201d approach to cloud management and brings key features of CMP, PaaS and orchestration platforms together into one. The new version allows for a number of possible users, including both power users and developers who prefer a tool with features similar to PaaS solutions. Cloudify 4 also offers an app catalog, multi-tenancy support, user-managed and role-based security, along with enhanced clustering and high availability, according to the vendor.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudify 4\u2019s orchestration-first approach combines \u201cfeatures of a CMP with PaaS-like functionality and powerful orchestration capabilities in a shared environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are some additional key features provided by the vendor:<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Features For Operators<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The multitenant self-service portal provides a central interface to control who gets access to the environment and which resources they may access.<\/li>\n<li>Application\/service reporting tools monitor the key performance indicators per application.<\/li>\n<li>Activity monitoring provides insights into activity per user per application over time.<\/li>\n<li>Enhances security via SSL-based communications among multi-cloud environments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New Features For Application Developers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Catalog of services widgets provides an easy way for developers to select and activate their target environment through a set of self-managed services, without requiring intimate knowledge of the \u201ccertified\u201d tools or infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>Built-in integration enables support for popular frameworks and cloud environments, including container frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes.<\/li>\n<li>Simple CLI experience provides the ability to run an application through a command line interface from a local desktop environment for development and testing purposes.<\/li>\n<li>One-click consumable provisioning of resources and tooling through a simple service catalog UI.<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic, customizable user experience via a fully configurable UI framework.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New Features For Power Users<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Model-driven blueprints provide the interface for automating all key components and workflows needed to manage the application and interface with the underlying resources that comprise the application.<\/li>\n<li>Model-driven design provides RESTful API access to all the resources exposed in the cloud management system, from the infrastructure resources to the monitoring system\u2014north- and southbound, as well as east and west.<\/li>\n<li>The extension through plug-in capability provides an interface to extend the cloud management system to support any API endpoint or resources that need to be part of the application lifecycle.<\/li>\n<li>A highly customizable CLI interface offers popular and easy choices for integration with the build system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Current Cloudify 3 users have already tested Cloudify 4 and have chosen it as their CMP going forward. It delivers built-in support for container frameworks like Docker, plus it supports common microservices architectures via a model-driven approach.<\/p>\n<p>The vendor claims that this new version is a \u201cdirect threat to legacy cloud management platforms (CMPs) used by enterprises since the earliest days of cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudify.co\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cloudify <\/a>team will present a Cloudify 4 features webinar on April 27 at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Cloudify unveiled a new version of their open source multi-cloud management software, Cloudify 4. The tool, a full-featured Cloud Management Platform (CMP), boasts new updates for app developers and power users. Cloudify 4 reportedly takes an \u201corchestration first\u201d approach to cloud management and brings key features of CMP, PaaS and orchestration platforms together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":1677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[205,11,26,33,23,326,115,18,10,16,20],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cloudify Releases Orchestration-First Cloud Management Platform - Cloud Platforms &amp; Infrastructure Services | Solutions Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/cloudify-releases-orchestration-first-cloud-management-platform\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/cloudify-releases-orchestration-first-cloud-management-platform\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/cloudify-releases-orchestration-first-cloud-management-platform\/\",\"name\":\"Cloudify Releases Orchestration-First Cloud Management Platform - Cloud Platforms &amp; 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