Best Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software for VMware Cloud

ActiveBatch by Redwood makes setting up and launching automation easy with no custom scripting required. With a low-code Super REST API adapter, over 100 pre-built job steps and a user-friendly drag-and-drop workflow designer, you can integrate across any system, application and data source, on-prem, in the cloud or in hybrid environments. Maintain complete control and visibility and meet SLAs with monitoring of all automation from a single pane of glass and get custom alerts via emails or SMS. Managed Smart Queues dynamically scale resources for high-volume workloads, reducing process times while the self-service portal enables business users to run and monitor workflows independently. ActiveBatch meets security and compliance standards, with ISO 27001 and SOC 2, Type II certifications, encrypted connections and regular third-party tests, always keeping security at the forefront. Along with ongoing product advancements, get the added benefit of 24x7 support and on-site training.

Pliant’s solution for IT Process Automation simplifies, streamlines, and secures how teams build and deploy automation. Reduce human error, ensure compliance, and elevate your efficiency, with Pliant. Ingest existing automation and write new automation with single-pane orchestration. Ensure compliance using consistent, practical built-in governance. Pliant has abstracted thousands of vendor APIs to create intelligent action blocks allowing users to drag-and-drop blocks, rather than writing and rewriting lines of code. From a single platform, citizen developers are able to build consistent and meaningful automation across platforms, services, and applications in minutes — maximizing value across the entire technology stack in one place. ​With​ ​our​ ​ability​ ​to​ ​add​ ​new​ ​APIs​ ​in​ ​15​ ​business​ ​days,​ ​anything that​ ​is​ ​not​ ​already​ ​out​ ​of​ ​the​ ​box​ ​will​ ​be​ ​in​ ​an​ ​industry​ ​leading​ ​timeframe.

The F5 Distributed Cloud Platform delivers improved functionality, advanced security controls, and more simplified operations than native services from cloud providers. A cloud-based platform that is purpose-built to support distributed applications across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. As applications evolve through microservices and increased dependencies on APIs, new highly distributed architectures are introducing greater complexities, costs, and increased risks. Multiple appliances, software, and connectivity services must be deployed and managed to deliver apps. Traditional CDNs and hub-spoke networks were not designed for immersive or large-scale SaaS apps. Services with different APIs, policies, and observability require investments in automation. Apps deployed across distributed environments are not equally protected. Difficult to align DevOps, NetOps, and SecOps across service provisioning and security using ticket-based workflows.

Define a new, scalable cloud infrastructure. Exert control and clear structures in your cloud environment by creating separate organizations, defining relationships between users, tenants, and projects, and managing quotas and services. Provision your systems through cloud and virtualization platforms like Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Amazon, and Microsoft Azure, set retirement dates, and scale your environment on your terms. Take your real-world environment and simulate what-if scenarios for proactive resource planning and continuous insights into consumption levels to allow detailed chargeback, quotas, and policy creation. Get a handle on performance, capacity, and workloads through SmartState historical and trend analytics for different aspects of your cloud environment. Define the policy state for your environment, and follow up with automatic alerts and responses as your environment changes.

Cloud images are operating system templates and every instance starts out as an identical clone of every other instance. It is the user data that gives every cloud instance its personality and cloud-init is the tool that applies user data to your instances automatically. Including datasource and module references, and plenty of examples. While cloud-init started life in Ubuntu, it is now available for most major Linux and FreeBSD operating systems. For cloud image providers, then cloud-init handles many of the differences between cloud vendors automatically — for example, the official Ubuntu cloud images are identical across all public and private clouds.

Better operators for enterprise apps with a full application graph and declarative integration for both Kubernetes and legacy estate. Juju operator integration allows us to keep each operator as simple as possible, then compose them to create rich application graph topologies that support complex scenarios with a simple, consistent experience and much less YAML. The UNIX philosophy of ‘doing one thing well’ applies to large-scale operations code too, and the benefits of clarity and reuse are exactly the same. Small is beautiful. Juju allows you to adopt the operator pattern for your entire estate, including legacy apps. Model-driven operations dramatically reduce maintenance and operations costs for traditional workloads without re-platforming to K8s. Once charmed, legacy apps become multi-cloud ready, too. The Juju Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) uniquely supports both container and machine-based apps, with seamless integration between them.