Cloudify has announced the launch of Version 6 featuring Environment as a Service 2.0: a new hierarchical environment management capability that simplifies the continuous management of large-scale deployments. Cloudify v6 was designed for organizations that want to simplify the management of Kubernetes and Terraform at scale.

Terraform users get a dynamic workspace environment in Cloudify 6, one that seamlessly organizes templates and modules into development, staging and production environments. Cloudify 6 manages the dependencies among these workspaces, executing operations across multiple environments from one interface. This environment as a service manages state files, secrets and runtime properties as well as logging across multiple environments from a centralized location.

Terraform users can also integrate their projects with the rest of the environment network and with Ansible. Cloudify 6 deployments also can interoperate with other orchestration tools such as AWS Cloud Formation or Azure ARM without wasting time on writing Glue code. Users also can run different versions of Terraform per environment simultaneously, streamlining upgrade processes.

Moreover, Kubernetes users can automatically discover and create multi Kubernetes clusters in Cloudify 6 with built-in support for AWS EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE and Red Hat OpenShift.

Cloudify 6 also introduces support for managing highly distributed environments with a new map view that provides filters and labels for managing multiple sites, multiple regions and multiple cloud environments, all based on these deployments’ geographical location. Filters and tagging let users easily group environments and deploy or update services on specific groups.