Morpheus Data、マルチクラウド管理プラットフォームにKubernetesを追加

最新のアップデートには、Ansible Towerを購入することなくマシンの状態を立ち上げて管理するのに役立つRed HatのAnsible製品をベースにした構成管理ツールも含まれています。Morpheus Data updated its cloud management platform with Kubernetes and Ansible support to provide a deeper, system-agnostic automation and control product for an organization’s infrastructure that it sees as lacking from systems offered by the likes of VMware and Red Hat. Brad Parks, vice president of business development at Morpheus Data, said the latest v4.0 update has two major components: a new focus on managing Kubernetes environments and building more support on top of Red Hat’s Ansible Tower user interface. For Kubernetes, the platform now includes an embedded and fully managed Morpheus Kubernetes Service, that thankfully does not have its own “MKS” acronym. This allows customers to manage the building, control, and use of their Kubernetes clusters from the Morpheus platform. “It’s not just the provisioning of containers that is the challenge, but also the underlying complexity of initially standing up and the management of the Kubernetes clusters itself that is a challenge,” Parks said. Parks noted that the cluster management service can also be used to spin up container clusters from a centralized and automated platform running through public cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. That management includes multi-cloud for containers and “the other 90% of their enterprise portfolio that is not running on containers,” Parks said. “This is the legacy stuff like bare metal applications, [virtual machine]-based apps, and container apps. Organization’s don’t want to deal with another silo, but instead want access to a single view into their operations.” Parks added that this makes it easier for an organization to modernize its application portfolios and eliminates the limitation of cloud and container automation tools that are tied to a specific hypervisor or operating system. “A lot of mainstream tools come from providers that have a given stake in the conversation,” Parks said, citing those offered by VMware and Red Hat. “But there is no such thing as a homogeneous enterprise. They want an agnostic approach that is completely independent.” The Kubernetes support has been validated through the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF’s) conformance testing program. The second component is a configuration management tool that builds on Red Hat’s Ansible product to help stand up and manage the state of a machine. This enhancement includes providing a wider view of the automation landscape and the ability for a company to use the Morpheus platform for roll-based access control (RBAC) instead of paying for the Ansible Tower system. It does this by allowing users to configure Ansible to run over its secure agents communication bus, which allows for direct control of Ansible in instances where an organization might run into a security constraint. Park added that Ansible has “risen to the top as of late as the most popular of those tools,” and that Morpheus Data “integrates with Ansible and makes it better.” This allows for a more robust approach to automation “where Ansible can do what it does well while Morpheus handles the self-service provisioning across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.” This support includes Linux and Windows deployments and can also run query secrets from Morpheus’ Cypher service. Parks said the updates continue the company’s push to make it easier for organizations to manage their diverse infrastructure deployments. “We are not looking to replace or push a new way of this,” Parks said. “That last mile of agility is really in connecting the dots. Organizations have deployed various software-defined systems or orchestration platforms for individual processes or teams but have not connected the dots between those systems. We connect those dots.” The company’s software lets companies manage and deploy applications across just about any cloud or on bare metal servers though dozens of integrations. These include public clouds —AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM, Google Cloud Platform, and DigitalOcean, to name a few — as well as VMware, Openstack, Hyper-V, Azure Stack, Nutanix, and Oracle-based private clouds. Morpheus can also integrate with automation platforms like Chef, Puppet, and Ansible, as well as load balancers, storage and backup providers, and Kubernetes and Docker containers. Parks said that awareness by enterprises to have an agnostic approach to managing their applications “is at an all-time high.” “The muscle memory from 10 years ago to go with a single vendor has gone out the window,” he added. “There is a lot less gravity to stick what that single tool set or vendor. They want a tool that allows their vendors to play together.”