Red Hat Cloud Forms 3.2 was the industry's first open source cloud management platform to manage OpenStack infrastructure and single platform workloads. Now, Red Hat Cloud Forms 4 adds functionalities to other platforms and tools developers and administrators need. The latest release provides a consistent user interface with self-service capabilities and covers comprehensive lifecycle management in virtual environments, private and public clouds, and containers .
Red Hat thought leader Alessandro Perilli presents the key benefits of Release 4. He says, "The new Cloud Forms has many new features, but for me the most important ones are the support of both virtualized applications and containers that support Microsoft Azure , and the multi-tenancy support that service providers especially need . "
Supporting containers in the same tool that allows even virtualized IT to be managed and organized is a "really big deal," Perilli says, adding the functionality of Cloud Forms. After all, containers and VMs are fundamentally different understandings of application development and distribution. While virtual worlds, designed in layers, are designed to stay, containers or micro-services are constantly renewed. Accordingly, these two types of applications are subject to different life cycles, different provisioning speeds, different rules for creation and distribution.Container management from paas to on-premise
At the same time, more and more companies are operating their workloads in the form of containers and would therefore like to have a closer look at the configurations. But so far, according to Perilli, these worlds could only be managed separately, if there had ever been management tools for containers and their distribution in clouds, on premise and scaling.
Cloud Forms 4, as a unified user interface, enables the management of container architectures and virtualized environments, from Jboss middleware to OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat and the infrastructure that hosts OpenShift. This enables Cloud Forms to manage the entire relationships of a container, from the Platform as a Service ( PaaS ) layer to the Infrastructure as a Service ( IaaS ) layer and physical host. "This is unique," says Perilli, "and has not even been tried before."
Red Hat Cloud Forms automatically detects and analyzes new resources and provides detailed operational insights into the following environments: Amazon Web Services , Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, OpenShift by Red Hat, OpenStack, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and VMware. In addition, Red Hat Cloud Forms automatically applies corporate compliance and governance rules across a common interface. In addition, well-designed dashboards and charts give users a better overview of the relationships between cloud platforms that run productively and container hosts.
