Network & Cloud Orchestration Integrating DDI to orchestrators brings zero touch operations for network management and security. Overcoming Slow Time To Market, Low Productivity and Spiraling Costs End-to-end IT management automation has become key for a successful cloud strategy shift. In this context, DDI (DNS, DHCP, IP address management) and network automation solutions have a major role to play for ensuring global visibility, unified resource management and process automation. DDI is the first step of your automation journey. Vendor-Agnostic Orchestration Integration with Connectors & Flexible APIs SOLIDserver DDI appliance suite can be seamlessly integrated with leading Orchestrators to automate provisioning workflow (VMware vRealize, Hashicorp Terraform). Flexible adapters and APIs enable purpose-built and intelligent sub-orchestration processes with existing orchestration platforms. SOLIDserver DDI brings centralized visibility and greater level of automation in multi-cloud environments for provisioning and deprovisioning of IP, DNS and DHCP services, thus ensuring fast and easy deployments according to specific management policies. Configuration managers (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) can ensure dynamic interaction with DDI resources, enabling agile and streamlined model-driven infrastructure deployments. Network Source of Truth IP Data for Enabling Cross-Platform Automation Network Automation is only possible if accurate shareable network data exists. A recent EMA report confirmed that poor data quality is a major roadblock to successful collaboration between NetSecOps teams. The IPAM of SOLIDserver offers a central consolidated repository of valuable data & metadata, which can be easily made available to ecosystem players. On the flip side, data from the ecosystem is also recuperated to automatically keep the repository accurate and up-to-date. Even Cloud platforms are addressed, thanks to the Cloud Observer features incorporated for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Policy-Driven Cloud Provisioning for Smooth Transition SOLIDserver™ appliance suite helps enterprises smoothly transition from traditional IT to cloud-based infrastructures and services. Policy-driven deployments based on customized parameters enable alignment with your processes and organization for secure and reliable data center automation. This dramatically shortens time-to-service, improves agility, reduces operating costs, and paves the way for cloud-first architectures. End-to-end Automation of Processes Integrating DDI to orchestration processes brings network and cloud automation capability for DevOps, NetOps, and SecOps processes. SDN, SD-WAN, and VM deployments are simplified and accelerated. On the security orchestration side, security rules such as those used for firewalls are kept accurate, and remediation efficiency is enhanced for SOCs and SOAR platforms. Your organization is put well and truly on the path to Zero Touch operations. Example Orchestration Use Cases There are many cases where SOLIDserver DDI can be interfaced to offer automation capability. Here are some examples: 1. Security Automation to Keep Firewall Rules Up-to-Date Combining DDI with Tufin SecureTrack guarantees error-free configurations, updated in real-time for ensuring defined security policies are adhered to. 2. Providing Visibility for SDN Deployments Networks created with Cisco DNA are reflected in the IPAM repository, providing enhanced visibility 3. SD-WAN Orchestration Based on Dynamic Data Repository For SD-WAN projects, “source of truth” IP data and metadata drives orchestration of IP management for better rollout control of sites and services 4. IaC and VM Provisioning Terraform can feed on IPAM to build on-demand infrastructure and enable application access through DDI automation and DNS record management 5. User Tracking for Audit Trail and RBAC Every change in the source of truth repository is logged for analysis, which is very valuable for security, compliance, governance and auditing Request An Orchestration Demo See how SOLIDserver DDI can help you on your path to zero touch network operations Get Started Benefits of DDI for Network and Cloud Orchestration Leveraging SOLIDserver DDI for orchestration of networks and public and private clouds brings many benefits: Enable Zero-Touch Networks Connect DDI with IT management systems for automated policy-driven operations. Reduced Operational Costs Advanced DDI automation and orchestration of management tasks and workflow processes Global Visibility and Control Unified view of physical and virtual resources and attributes across multiple cloud platforms Improved Resiliency and Scalability Error-free configuration, consistency control, and high-availability of DDI services Strengthened Security Rules automatically updated across security components such as firewalls Products When it comes to enabling orchestration of network and cloud processes and workflows, SOLIDserver DDI and APIs are foundational. SOLIDserver™ DDI Highly scalable critical DNS-DHCP-IPAM services providing vital benefits for the agility, reliability, and security of your network infrastructure. Explore APIs and Webhook Interfacing SOLIDserver to orchestration or automation systems with open APIs provides IT the foundation of IP networking, from addressing to global load balancing. 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