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Introduction
1 - Overview
Main Features
The Need for Multi-Cloud Environments
Cloud computing has become a critical technology for businesses, offering flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiency. However, multi-cloud environments, which use the services of multiple cloud providers, can introduce complexity and management challenges.
Key reasons for adopting a multi-cloud strategy include:
- Optimal Service Selection: Different cloud providers offer a variety of services, and a multi-cloud environment allows businesses to choose the best service for their specific needs.
- Cost Optimization: By leveraging multiple providers, businesses can play them off against each other to drive down costs.
- Avoiding Service Disruption: If one cloud provider experiences an outage, businesses can continue operating without interruption by using another provider's services.
- Regulatory Compliance: A multi-cloud environment can facilitate regulatory compliance by storing data in multiple regions.
Cloudforet, Multi-Cloud Management Platform Features
A Cloudforet provides a range of features to effectively manage multi-cloud environments:
- Centralized Management: It offers a single interface to manage multiple cloud providers, ensuring consistency and efficiency.
- Automation: Automates tasks such as cloud resource provisioning, deployment, and management, enhancing operational efficiency.
- Monitoring: Real-time monitoring of performance, usage, and security across the multi-cloud environment helps predict and resolve issues.
- Cost Management: Analyzes and optimizes cloud usage to reduce costs.
- Security: Strengthens security across the multi-cloud environment and detects and prevents threats.
Benefits of Cloudforet, Multi-Cloud Management Platforms
Cloudforet offers several benefits:
- Improved Operational Efficiency: Centralized management and automation of cloud management tasks streamline operations.
- Cost Reduction: Optimizing cloud usage and eliminating unnecessary resources lowers costs.
- Enhanced Security: Robust security features fortify the multi-cloud environment against threats.
- Regulatory Compliance: Facilitates meeting regulatory compliance requirements.
- Increased Agility: Rapid development and deployment of new services are possible in a multi-cloud environment.
Cloudforet Universe
Our feature is expanding all areas to build a Cloudforet universe to fulfill requirements for cloud operation/management based on the inventory data, automation, analysis, and many more for Multi Clouds.
2 - Integrations
Overview
Cloudforet supports the Plugin Interfaces, which supports to extend Core Services. The supported plugins are listed in
Managed Plugins (Compatible with Cloudforet Version 1.x)
Managed Plugins are pre-registed plugins that are compatible with Cloudforet Version 1.x.
| name | plugin_id | service_type | provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| API Direct | plugin-api-direct-mon-webhook | monitoring.Webhook | |
| AWS Cloud Service Collector | plugin-aws-cloud-service-inven-collector | inventory.Collector | aws |
| AWS CloudTail Log DataSource | plugin-aws-cloudtrail-mon-datasource | monitoring.DataSource | aws |
| AWS CloudWatch Metric DataSource | plugin-aws-cloudwatch-mon-datasource | monitoring.DataSource | aws |
| AWS Cost Explorer Data Source | plugin-aws-cost-explorer-cost-datasource | cost_analysis.DataSource | aws |
| AWS EC2 Collector | plugin-aws-ec2-inven-collector | inventory.Collector | aws |
| AWS Personal Health Dashboard Collector | plugin-aws-phd-inven-collector | inventory.Collector | aws |
| AWS SNS | plugin-aws-sns-monitoring-webhook | monitoring.Webhook | aws |
| AWS Trusted Advisor Collector | plugin-aws-ta-inven-collector | inventory.Collector | aws |
| Azure Activity Log DataSource | plugin-azure-activity-log-mon-datasource | monitoring.DataSource | azure |
| Azure Cost Management Data Source | plugin-azure-cost-mgmt-cost-datasource | cost_analysis.DataSource | azure |
| Azure Collector | plugin-azure-inven-collector | inventory.Collector | azure |
| Azure Monitoring Metric DataSource | plugin-azure-monitor-mon-datasource | monitoring.DataSource | azure |
| Email Notification Protocol | plugin-email-noti-protocol | notification.Protocol | |
| Google Cloud Collector | plugin-google-cloud-inven-collector | inventory.Collector | google_cloud |
| Google Cloud Log DataSource | plugin-google-cloud-log-mon-datasource | monitoring.DataSource | google_cloud |
| Google Cloud Monitoring | plugin-google-monitoring-mon-webhook | monitoring.Webhook | google_cloud |
| Google Cloud Monitoring Metric DataSource | plugin-google-stackdriver-mon-datasource | monitoring.DataSource | google_cloud |
| Grafana | plugin-grafana-mon-webhook | monitoring.Webhook | |
| Keycloak OIDC | plugin-keycloak-identity-auth | identity.Domain | |
| MS Teams Notification Protocol | plugin-ms-teams-noti-protocol | notification.Protocol | microsoft |
| Prometheus | plugin-prometheus-mon-webhook | monitoring.Webhook | |
| Slack Notification Protocol | plugin-slack-noti-protocol | notification.Protocol | slack |
| Telegram Notification Protocol | plugin-telegram-noti-protocol | notification.Protocol | telegram |
Additional Plugins
There are more plugins in the Github Plugin Project
3 - Key Differentiators
Open Source Project
In order to provide effective and flexible support over various cloud platforms, we aim for an open source based strategy cloud developer community.
Plugin Interfaces
Protocol-Buffer based gRPC Framework provides optimization on its own engine, enabling effective processing of thousands of various cloud schemas based on MSA (Micro Service Architecture).
Dynamic Rendering
Provide a user-customized view with selected items by creating a Custom-Dashboard based on Json Metadata.
Plugin Ecosystem
A Plugin marketplace for various users such as MSP, 3rd party, and customers to provide freedom for developments and installation according to their own needs.
4 - Release Notes
Development Version
Active Development Version: 2.x