Managing development projects across an enterprise can be a complex process, involving tracking multiple phases and teams.
Cloud management company CliQr's latest CloudCenter platform introduces features that help developer and operations teams simplify and streamline deployment of any application to any data center, public or private cloud.
CloudCenter uses an integrated continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) Project Board which unifies the management of users, deployments and environments across multiple pipeline phases -- from development, test and quality assurance to staging and production.
"True CI/CD can only be achieved with automation, but -- until now -- continuous deployment across multiple environments has been problematic," says Tenry Fu, co-founder and CTO of CliQr. "CliQr's new CloudCenter update marks an industry milestone as the first cloud management platform to integrate end-to-end project management with underlying infrastructure and application deployment automation. New features help DevOps teams automate and standardize deployment in any data center or cloud environment and visualize and manage each project’s end-to-end process that crosses those environments".
In addition to the Project Board where developers and the project manager can see the health and status of deployments at any stage, key features of CloudCenter 4.2 include Project Definitions that enable project managers to set lifecycle phases, link to cloud accounts, add users and then launch projects with defined budgets and built-in cost controls.
Because a single platform manages project setup, execution and integrated application and infrastructure deployment automation across all phases of the CI/CD pipeline, project managers have complete transparency of overall project flow, current health and status, as well as control and reporting against allocated budget. For DevOps teams CloudCenter eliminates cloud lock-in and hard coding of the deployment. Users can simply promote deployments from one phase to another across cloud environments with no detailed knowledge of underlying services.
More details of CloudCenter 4.2's features are available on the CliQr blog.
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