Cloud Application Manager API’s: The Secret Sauce
May 12, 2016By Mariana Welti
Cloud Application Manager’s API supports all functionality available on the UI. But what does this mean for customers who are integrating Cloud Application Manager with their custom solutions for managing services?
We have the privilege to work with industry-leading companies such as Netflix, DeNA and Cytobank, to name a few. While most of them operate with hundreds and even thousands of instances at the same time, taking advantage of integration with their existing investments allows them to provide users an experience that fosters productivity. Sometimes that’s best served with an off-the-shelf implementation and other times, using API’s to leverage functionality on a proprietary platform can also be beneficial. Nonetheless, we give customers choice.
Many times, organizations have environments in which their manual operations are not manageable which causes sprawl of systems and services; ultimately leading to a significant increase in systemic errors. This is where automation can be used to run a customers’ processes, and thanks to our API, they can deploy thousands of instances quickly, update environments in a few simple steps and simply re-deploy dormant instances.
In this scenario, Cloud Application Manager’s UI works as a control panel, as users can monitor workloads in a graphical manner from the...