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Version: 2023.3

CloudShell Features and Benefits

  • Faster time to market:

    • Easy-to-use drag-and-drop blueprint editor allows you to set up operational blueprints in minutes
    • Python-based environment orchestration and provisioning
    • Vibrant developer community containing growing number of open-source shells for 100s of physical devices, virtual appliances, private and public clouds
    Shells - Python-based plugins for discovering lab and cloud infrastructure
    • Data model
    • Device structure
    • Common, device-specific Day 2 actions
    • Drag and drop

  • Application layer configuration management:

    • Ability to apply configuration management to VM's OS and applications
    • Ability to load configurations on device OS

  • Ease of use:

    • Web-based self-service portal and inventory catalog
    • Blueprint reservation and scheduling, resource allocation management and conflict resolution
    • API and CI/CD tool integrations for DevOps, agile and continuous development processes

  • Monitoring and control:

    Business insights and utilization reports

    Custom and out-of-the-box dashboards containing easy-to-understand graphs, charts and tables, providing business insights and actionable intelligence around infrastructure consumption and activity, managed identities and more.

    • Resource inventory (resource/chassis/blade/port etc.), cloud infrastructure, sandbox consumption and licenses, user activity and more
    • Easy-to-use editor allows you to create and customize existing dashboards in minutes
    • Robust inventory search mechanism for finding CloudShell resources based on different criteria
    • In-browser access to resources using SSH, RDP and more
    • Activity feed displaying real-time sandbox progress and activity messages, as well as errors

  • Security and data integrity:

    • HTTPS security
    • Ability to set cloud security policies across multi-cloud environments
    • Blueprint-deployment approach ensuring data integrity
    • Siloed environments
    • Resource authentication credentials encrypted and accessible only to admins and/or delegated users
    • Option to isolate/share resources across multiple environments/domains

  • High performance:

    • Powerful sandbox-deployment mechanism supports the deployment of 100s of sandbox environments in parallel
    • Distributed execution engines allowing for scale, latency mitigation and quick delivery
    • Integration with leading CI/CD tools and technologies

  • Multi-site deployments:

    • Domains - Set up site/team/project-specific deployments, with access to privileged users in the organization.
    • Role-based access control, integration with Active Directory, SSO and more

  • Test automation:

    • High-performance test automation platform allows the deployment of 100s of jobs in parallel
    • Native support for Robot Framework
    • Support for rapid execution of hundreds of test batches in parallel
    • RESTful API for automation and integration with CI/CD tools