Cloud infrastructure solutions provider NephoScale announced on Thursday it has launched version 2.0 of its cloud technology solution CloudScript, which features advanced orchestration and configuration management tools.
As more and more companies begin to adopt a DevOps organizational structure, there is an increasing challenge in finding a cloud services platform that lets developers and IT operations staff work together to improve feature development flow, while increasing both infrastructure stability and reliability.
In an effort to appeal to these DevOps-focused organizations, along with the rather lofty goal of setting a new standard for collaboration, automation, and governance, NephoScale designed CloudScript 2.0 to outperform what is currently available with Amazon Web Services CloudFormation.
According to NephoScale, CloudScript 2.0 reduces the time it takes to provision and configure management tasks by up to 10-fold.
“Infrastructure management is now a software development activity, and the adoption of DevOps is now becoming an organizational requirement. IT departments, developers, and business managers are now dealing with this new reality,” said Bruce Templeton, CEO of NephoScale. “The answer is a platform that allows users to manage all resources, applications stacks, code, and their associated dependencies in an easy-to-use and centralized fashion. To stay relevant, cloud service providers must build next-generation cloud infrastructure platforms that are built from the ground-up to support DevOps.”
In a Q&A published in March 2011, Templeton discussed the then newly launched NephoScale and its unique approach to the traditional cloud service model.
CloudScript is a domain specific language that is designed to address the application lifecycle management challenges organizations face, according to the press release.
NephoScale’s IaaS cloud services platform addresses the issue of figuring how to optimize an application’s delivery at every stage of its production with its CloudScript orchestration technology.
Users can provision their entire production infrastructure supporting a complex distributed application with a single click, and organize the entire record about their application in a single file.
NephoScale says that with this new version of CloudScript, AWS and NephoScale are the only public IaaS cloud service providers that offer such advanced cloud orchestration tools.
The company says that CloudScript 2.0 has some advantages over AWS, namely its ability to support idempotent operations so users can repeat or retry a configuration change as often as they want without any consequences, collaboration feature CloudScript Interpreter makes CloudScript text files easily readable by both technical and non-technical users, and the ablity to include embedded code in its native form without altering or changing the code.
The company also announced it has introduced a new set of configuration management capabilities that work across the entire NephOS platform to improve IaaS automation and programmability.
These features are supported by all three platform access methods including CloudScript, the RESTful API, and the web portal.
There are also new configuration management features, including the ability to run “init scripts” at boot time so that users can automate their infrastructure more easily, as they no longer have to manually initiate a script or series of scripts after a server is provisioned.
Headless installation of Chef/Puppet from within a CloudScript is now possible, along with the subsequent processing of Chef/Puppet recipes automatically after a server is provisioned.
And finally, users can view post execution output and results of scripts from within the customer portal.
Talk back: Are you considering using CloudScript 2.0? Do you see a benefit to a cloud platform designed specifically for DevOps? Let us know in a comment.
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