Cloudify 4.5 introduces several new features around intent-based orchestration, including service modeling, continuous updates via closed-loop automation, and continuous workflows. It provides enhanced deployment updates, close-loop orchestration architecture, and workflow and operational continuity including queued executions. Other new features include resumable workflows, scheduled workflows, actionable events, native multi-cloud orchestration across platforms like AWS and Azure, Kubernetes plugin enhancements, improved security features, network orchestration integrations, and a vision for future enhancements around a manager of managers and microservices architecture.

1. Cloudify 4.5
Webinar

2. Intent Based Orchestration

3. Intent Based Orchestration
Key Features:
● Service modeling
● Continuous updates
● Closed Loop
automation
● Continuous workflow
● Cloud native / hybrid
stack

4. Deployment Update
★ Update topology
★ Update inputs
★ Update plugins

5. Close Loop Orchestration

6. Close Loop
Architecture

7. Workflow & Operational
Continuity

8. Workflow Queueing
• Execution will get queued in following cases:
• Snapshot creation execution while there are running executions
• Execute workflow while snapshot creation is running or queued
• Execute workflow while there are running executions for the same deployment (if not forced)
• New timestamp column for executions `started`
• Queued executions will start as soon as they can
• Ability to cancel queued executions
$ cfy executions start <workflow> --queue

9. Resumable Workflows
● Task graphs stored in DB with all their operations and dependencies
● Manual resume via REST (CLI, UI) for final state executions (‘terminated’, ‘failed’, ‘canceled’)
● Auto resume upon mgmt-worker startup for ‘started’ executions
● Re execute entire graph
○ What’s done is done
○ Operation failed state - reset retry counter
○ Operation started state
■ Agent operation - resume wait
■ Manager operation - in case operation is ‘resumable’, reset state
$ cfy operations list EXECUTION_ID
$ cfy executions resume EXECUTION_ID

10. Scheduled Workflows
● Execution will start on time or queue in case of restriction
$ cfy executions schedule <workflow> 2019-10-20T16:15:00+0500

11. Actionable Events
• Take action on Cloudify-Manager events
• Special hooks queued on RabbitMQ and handled by mgmtworker
• Plugable implementation

12. Cloud Native &
Multi Cloud Orchestration

13. Native Multi Cloud Orchestration
Azure ARM AWS Cloud Formation Terraform

14. Native Multi Cloud Orchestration
Service
Orchestration
Hosts Resources
Service
Enterprise
Service Management
uService
uService Orchestration
Infrastructure
Orchestration
Azure Arm
Portal Service Catalog
Logging & Monitoring
RBAC & Multi
Tenancy

15. Kubernetes Plugin Enhancements
● Support bare metal
● Support libvirt
● Kubernetes networking:
○ Flannel
○ Calico
○ Weave

16. Security

17. Security Enhancements
● Secret store encryption
● Pluggable authentication, Kerberos support
● Multi management networks
$ cfy_manager add-networks {“mgnt1”:”10.239.10.22”}

18. Network Orchestration

19. Network Orchestration
● Oracle SBC Plugin
● Broadsoft Plugin
● Multi-cloud Swift3 Plugin
● Benu Networks Plugin
● Juniper Contrail Plugin
● iDirect OSS/BSS Integration
● Netnumber TITAN VNFM using Ansible & Execution plugins
● Nuage SD-WAN Integration

20. What’s Next
● Manager of managers
● Microservices architecture
● Service composition & service chaining

21. Thank You