ServiceMesh Cloud Tools Get Cozier With DevOps

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

ServiceMesh has pushed into a more distinct DevOps space with the release of Version 9.0 of its Agility cloud management platform. Agility can now release a new application into production from development, configure it in real time and manage it, regardless of its cloud destination.

Cloud computing may take on greater appeal if it can regularly incorporate these application-centric — as opposed to virtual machine-centric — attributes. DevOps requires a focus on the application lifecycle and its continuous updates, without infighting between development teams and operations…

There are a number of parties occupying the management platform space, including Eucalyptus, Nimbula and Cloupia. ServiceMesh is distinct, however, in its greater focus on alignment with DevOps. (To learn more about ServiceMesh and its cloud management platform competitors, see this post by financial services blogger Alan Radding.) Agility Version 9.0 was released Feb. 20 with "a deep level of integration with Puppet Labs," the widely used, open source configuration management system. Developers use Puppet to capture the specifications of a successful application build. Cloud users can use it in much the same way to capture the specs of a successful virtual machine deployment…

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