Cloudify Manager

Cloudify enables you to deploy applications using two main methods:

• Using the Cloudify CLI
• Using the Cloudify Management Console

The Cloudify Manager is a dedicated environment comprising an open-source stack which enables you to:

• Utilize plugins (such as Docker, Script, Chef and Puppet plugins) to manage application hosts
• Keep a directory of your blueprints
• Create multiple deployments for each blueprint and install them
• Execute healing, scaling and other custom workflows on your installed applications
• Run multiple workflows concurrently
• View an application’s topology and perform different tasks using the Cloudify Management Console
• View metrics
• Search logs

In addition, the Cloudify Manager:

• Provides a secure environment for managing applications via multiple authentication mechanisms and customizable authorization
• Retains a history of metrics and events
• Manages agents running on an application’s host machines

Although you can use Cloudify to provision resources directly from the CLI, use Cloudify Manager to manage production-level applications.

For more information about Cloudify Manager, see the Cloudify Manager section later in this user’s guide.