Datasheet FUJITSU Software UForge AppCenter 3.7 Datasheet FUJITSU Software UForge AppCenter 3.7 Hybrid IT Application Delivery and Migration Hybrid IT Application Delivery UForge AppCenter Hybrid IT adoption continues to grow at a rapid pace. Enterprises are UForge AppCenter enables enterprises to deliver, migrate and govern looking to take advantage of the agility benefits of new fast IT applications for hybrid IT environments, including virtual and cloud environments without sacrificing the governance, control and security infrastructures. they have come to expect from traditional robust IT data centers. Bridging the gap between old and new is the key to headache-free It includes a suite of simple, self-service tools for automatically hybrid IT, but that process inevitably presents a number of significant building and maintaining cloud application stacks, migrating existing challenges. application workloads to cloud or between clouds, and collaborating across teams during application development and deployment. One of those challenges is how to repeatably and consistently onboard and manage applications in a hybrid environment. Getting With UForge AppCenter, enterprises benefit from: applications up and running where you need them, whether you’re ■ Increased business agility, with the ability to run applications in using a robust or fast IT platform, without getting overwhelmed by the the “best execution venue”, whether that’s in the cloud or a number of operating systems and infrastructures you need to support, traditional data center and without losing control of those applications you have running, can ■ Protection of existing application investments with the ability to quickly turn into a major headache. easily migrate to different environments ■ Accelerated release and onboarding cycles to improve time to market for applications and services ■ The ability to foster innovation by improving teamwork, collaboration and productivity in DevOps organizations ■ Greater control and enterprise governance over software and applications Page 1 of 5 www.fujitsu.com/software/uforge Datasheet FUJITSU Software UForge AppCenter 3.7 Features and benefits Main features Benefits Application Templating, Governance and Lifecycle Management ■ “Model once, run anywhere” and 100% automation: ■ Deliver applications 30x faster across hybrid IT environments with Full-stack universal templating for Linux and Windows, full automation compared to manual re-assembly for each cloud modeling install profile, OS, middleware, application and ■ Easily manage complex software matrices including several configuration logic in a single template operating systems and target environments “One-click” automated machine image build from your ■ Ensure application consistency and reversibility irrespective of template for any cloud, hypervisor or container deployment environment “One-click” publish of machine images to supported clouds ■ Maintain governance and transparency over the full software ■ Enterprise-wide, centrally-administered software catalogs and stack, and ensure compliance with corporate-approved private catalogs per user components ■ Automated dependency checking of all OS packages, with the ■ Reduce application deployment and configuration errors through ability to specify particular package versions automated processes ■ Native Linux OS repositories since 2008 updated daily and the ■ Easily manage template lifecycles with updates and patches, or ability to integrate with custom enterprise repositories the ability to rollback if needed ■ Template cloning for instant re-use with ability to extend, update and patch afterwards ■ Unique “time machine” functionality to analyze and simulate OS updates and rollbacks Application Migration ■ Live server scanning to analyze and report all the software ■ Save 30% costs with automated migration and templating components making up your workload compared to one-by-one manual migration processes ■ ”Lift and shift” migration for Linux and Windows, simply replicating ■ Protect investments in existing enterprise applications your live server to a new cloud or virtual infrastructure ■ Update and standardize application stacks during migration ■ “Revise and re-factor” migration for Linux, modeling your live allowing for higher performance, resiliency or cost efficiency in a server as a template for updates, patches or managed services cloud environment injection before migration ■ Easily audit servers and check for server drift or potential security ■ Incremental scans to compare servers and see at a glance what issues changes have been made Integration with DevOps & Enterprise IT ■ Integration with your existing DevOps toolchain, from continuous ■ Add VM and machine image creation and maintenance into your integration tools (Maven, Jenkins etc.) to configuration DevOps processes for a single, end-to-end toolchain management platforms (Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Ansible etc.) ■ Improve teamwork, collaboration and productivity across ■ Collaboration workspaces for sharing templates across teams, development, QA and operations teams to reduce “silos” and including user management and roles, and activity streams with accelerate application release cycles notifications, comments etc. ■ Create “ready-to-run” software appliances with automated post- ■ Modeling of post-install bootscripts for first and every boot installation configuration ■ Export of templates, integrating with revision control systems such ■ Integrate templates into existing version control processes as Git or Apache Subversion ■ Easily connect with external IT services including support ticketing, ■ Event-driven service to integrate with 3rd-party plug-ins and bug tracking, CRM and more extend software business logic Platform Administration ■ Central administration of corporate-approved software catalogs ■ Keep full control over enterprise software IP and governance ■ Global statistics dashboard and logos to track platform usage ■ Easily integrate with existing corporate identity and user policies ■ RBAC to define user profiles and access rights by OS, feature etc. ■ Ability to integrate SSO with your corporate LDAP database ■ Ability to use external identity authority for user authentication and authorization Page 2 of 5 www.fujitsu.com/software/uforge Datasheet FUJITSU Software UForge AppCenter 3.7 Topic Universal Application Templating Any OS, Any Cloud UForge AppCenter is based on application templating techniques that UForge AppCenter is a fully agnostic platform supporting leading are unique to the platform. It models the complete application stack, operating systems and all leading clouds and hypervisors so you can including operating system packages, middleware, application and easily integrate into a hybrid IT environment and ensure reversibility configuration logic, as a meta-data template. You can also model disk across platforms. partitioning and install profile into your template. UForge AppCenter enables you to upload your own proprietary or open source software UForge AppCenter supports Windows Server 2008R2, 2012 and components or select from a centrally managed catalog. 2012R2, as well as all leading Linux operating systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Templating provides several benefits for enterprises: Scientific Linux, Pidora and Raspbian. It also supports hardened or ■ Easily maintain software governance with complete visibility over customized versions of Linux. the full software stack down to individual OS packages ■ Fully automate post-installation configuration by building UForge AppCenter supports cloud, virtual and physical infrastructures. configuration logic and install profiling into a single template Supported clouds include Abiquo, Apache CloudStack, AWS, ■ Easily maintain the template life-cycle by simply updating Eucalyptus, Flexiant, FUJITSU Cloud Service K5, Google Compute individual software components as necessary Engine, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack etc.). UForge AppCenter also ■ Ensure your application stack remains consistent wherever you supports containers including Docker, and leading hypervisors choose to deploy it including Hyper-V, KVM, OVF/OVA, VMware, Xen, XenServer and many ■ Model from live servers, transforming opaque “black boxes” into more. transparent systems with the ability to inject life-cycle management Built for Cloud with 100% Automation Available on-premise or as a SaaS platform, UForge AppCenter has Enterprise DevOps Integration been designed from the ground up for cloud environments. UForge UForge AppCenter can be easily integrated into your enterprise AppCenter includes 100% API coverage with multiple SDKs (REST, Java, DevOps toolchain helping automate end to end, from coding, build Python) so you can fully automate all your processes and easily and test stages to release, deployment and ongoing management. A integrate with other tools. typical enterprise use case might include nightly software component builds as rpm packages by Jenkins, for example, during the A Choice of Interfaces development phase. UForge AppCenter can pick up these rpm In addition to APIs, UForge AppCenter is accessible via a GUI that packages, and automatically generate a machine image or container, provides a single console for the full suite of templating, migration then push to a public cloud, for example, for testing and QA. Once the and collaboration tools. Using the graphical interface, you can visually application is ready for release, UForge AppCenter can push it