Summary Of NIOS 8.6.2 Solution Benefits By Public Cloud Platform

Summary of NIOS 8.6.2 Solution Benefits by Public Cloud Platform

AWS	Azure	GCP
Reporting	Reporting	DHCP
V4015 Appliances	V4015, V4025 Appliances	V4015, V4025 Appliances

Multi-Cloud Orchestration And Automation With Extended DDI Plug-Ins:

Ansible
Terraform
Kubernetes ExternalDNS
Nutanix
Red Hat
Cisco

Ansible: Advance user experience and vNIOS automation

The Ansible Galaxy Collection delivers an improved user experience by combining Infoblox DDI capabilities in Ansible workflows, and by enabling automation of VM workloads across multiple platforms. The NIOS 8.6.2 plug-in maintains concurrency with the Ansible 1.2.1 release.

The nios_modules collection provides modules and plug-ins for managing networks, IP address and DNS records, and data center (DTC) global server load balancing (GSLB) to ensure critical application and resource availability and uptime.

Terraform: Heighten user experience, control, and automation

HashiCorp Terraform is an open-source infrastructure-as-code (IaC) data center automation tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure across multiple clouds and platforms. Infoblox’s ongoing integrations with Terraform enable organizations to view, manage, and automate DDI workflows simply and easily across hybrid, multi-cloud environments. NIOS 8.6.2 builds on existing DNS and IPAM support and improves user experience, control, and efficiency by enabling Terraform 2.1 to manage and automate DNS and IPAM services in VMware and Azure environments.

The Terraform plug-in simplifies access administration and heightens efficiency through orchestration for the next available network container, import objects, .txt resource, and data sources support.

Kubernetes ExternalDNS: Simplify container automation and improve security

Kubernetes (K8s) simplifies container networking by managing and automating container workloads on-premises or in the cloud. It enables traffic routing for high availability and scalability.

NIOS 8.6.2 offers the K8s ExternalDNS plug-in that enables discovery and visibility by configuring public DNS servers with exposed K8s services data, continues certificate-based two-factor authentication, and allows K8s pods to create automated ExternalDNS records (A, Host, CNAME, and TXT) in vNIOS.

Nutanix: Advance automation for virtualized workflows

Organizations are adopting virtualization, cloud, and hyper-converged infrastructure but need agility and flexibility to realize promised efficiencies. Existing Infoblox integrations added vNIOS for Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) to solve these problems and accelerate DDI deployment and management in private cloud platforms like VMware and OpenStack.

NIOS 8.6.2 builds on these capabilities with the Nutanix plug-in to advance AHV server virtualization with rapid IP address provisioning on VMs, automatic deprovisioning of IP addresses from decommissioned VMs, and unified management of private and hybrid cloud networks.

Red Hat: Centralize visibility and automation

Red Hat delivers hardened, open-source solutions that help enterprises work across platforms and environments, from the core data center to the network edge. Infoblox’s integrations with Red Hat make it easier to see, manage, and control core network data on applications and clouds everywhere. The NIOS 8.6.2 IPAM plug-in for RedHat OpenStack Xena is a containerized adapter that delivers secure, single control plane and granular visibility into the entire OpenStack network.

It automates IP address provisioning/deprovisioning and DHCP server management with integrated DNS, simplifies troubleshooting to reduce downtime, and synchronizes DDI in data center and hybrid cloud environments for seamless, secure multi-network and resource management within the Red Hat OpenStack platform.

Cisco: Raise visibility and deepen network access control (NAC)

Infoblox’s ongoing integrations with Cisco NAC, SDN, and SD-WAN solutions enrich network visibility, management, and control for customers with Cisco deployments. Cisco’s Identity Service Engine (ISE) secures and simplifies NAC and automates zero trust security and policy enforcement. Infoblox publishes critical network and DNS security event and contextual data for Cisco ISE to enrich NAC, automate threat detection notification, provide forensic information for prioritizing threats and policies, and speed incident response.

NIOS 8.6.2 enhances ROI on existing ISE investments and upgrades support to ISE 3.x for deeper visibility, control, and identity management across network applications, routers, switches, and other network devices and assets.