CloudChef Platform Version 8.3 Officially Released | Comprehensive Upgrade Delivers a More Efficient Cloud Management Experience, Empowering Enterprise Digital Transformation

2025-10-22

Recently, CloudChef officiallyreleased CloudChef Platform Version 8.3.0!
After nearly four months of development, Version 8.3.0 brings a wealth of newfeatures and optimizations. The main functionalities of this version include:

  • Enhance support for more cloud platforms and cloud products

  • Improve CMDB and asset models

  • Enhance service catalog and FinOps capabilities

  • Platform optimizations

  • New backup and recovery service integrations

  • Support for MySQL HA high-availability mode based on InnoDB Cluster for installation and deployment


01

Cloud Platform Integration and Resource Management

•Support for Cisco ACI Contract management

•Optimize Cisco ACI EPG, supporting standalone deployment and orchestrated deployment with Network

•Support for orchestrating Cisco ACI EPG and Huawei DCS (FC)

•Support for configuring whitelist groups for Alibaba Public Cloud/Apsara Stack database resources, with whitelist group and whitelist information displayed in resource details

•Support for displaying console AKSK access addresses and OSS Bucket addresses for Apsara OSS resources, with click-to-redirect functionality

•Support for creating and deleting Apsara RAM users, including adding & deleting AK/SK

•Support for users connecting to Buckets in Alibaba Public Cloud/Apsara OSS using AK/SK

•Support for manually entering IPv4 address segments when applying for Apsara VPC

•Support for manually assigning IP addresses when creating Huawei DCS EIP

•Support for cloning Huawei DCS cloud servers

•Support for querying and using private images in Huawei DCS, including specifying images by the Name attribute

•Support for binding/unbinding EIP to Huawei DCS ELB, with bound EIP displayed in ELB details

•Support for creating, importing, synchronizing, and deleting Huawei DCS Virtual Private Network (VPN)

•Support for displaying security group rules and network interface information in Huawei DCS security group details, with options to add/delete security group rules

•Support for displaying detailed policy information in the policy details tab of Huawei HCS VPN Connections

•Support for displaying console access addresses for Huawei HCS OBS resources, with click-to-redirect functionality

•Support for creating and deleting Huawei HCS RAM users, including password reset & adding/deleting AK/SK

•Support for users connecting to Buckets in Huawei HCS OBS using AK/SK

•Support for cloning Huawei FusionCompute cloud servers

•Support for synchronizing and monitoring Huawei FusionCompute physical machines

•Support for standalone deployment of Huawei FusionCompute Network

•Support for selecting security groups when creating Huawei FusionCompute cloud servers, with day2 security group update operations

•Support for creating, synchronizing, importing, and deleting Huawei FusionCompute security groups, with options to add/delete security group rules

•Support for utilizing all physical resources (including storage) in Huawei FusionCompute, with usage/total capacity displayed in applications and approvals

•Adaptation to H3C CAS Platform E7090 version API

•Support for creating virtual machines with GPUs in Sangfor SCP, including full clone cloud servers and configuring system disk size

•Integration with Huawei O9000 storage, supporting storage resource imports and displaying total capacity and usage information


02

Resource Models and Operational Capabilities Enhancement

1.Resource Models and CMDB Capabilities Enhancement

  • CMDB supports relationship mapping based on arbitrary attribute fields, enabling automatic discovery and topology display, with the same attribute mappable to different components

  • Alerts in resource topology are displayed by alert level, and clicking the alert icon redirects to triggered alerts for detailed information

  • Support for configuring JS for component attributes, with default values displayed in resource details

2.Resource Operational Capabilities Enhancement
  • Changing the secondary owner supports two modes: appending owners or replacing owners

  • Support for executing commands via API when running scripts on cloud servers (Huawei FC/vSphere/Ali/Azure)

  • Support for resetting passwords for UCloud cloud servers

  • Support for querying and using private images in Huawei DCS,   including specifying images by the Name attribute

  • Support for querying and using shared images in Azure

  • Support for using forms from change operations as dynamic user data sources in approval workflows

  • Changes to cloud server & cloud resource attribute configurations on the cloud generate change operations in the platform,   with changes recorded

  • Backend Capabilities Enhancement

1.Add cross-validation when deleting VMs on VC to prevent accidental deletion of VMs with the same Moref

2.Support for IP conflict detection via cloud gateway when any resource pool is configured with a cloud gateway

03

Process and IT Service Capabilities Enhancement

1.Service Configuration and Application Optimization
  • Virtual machine applications and day2 operations for adding/expanding system and data disks display dropdown lists in descending order based on priority and   remaining available size

  • Pipeline - Cloud service deployment tasks support context parameter passing, allowing manual adjustments before automatic deployment

  • Description fields for cloud applications, cloud resources, various tickets, and application forms now support up to 1024 characters

2.Ticket Enhancement
  • Add service column display and filtering support for My Applications/Approvals/Pending Tasks/All Tickets lists

  • Approval email notifications for tickets now distinguish specific service types

  • Ticket reassignment now supports service teams and roles, with reassignment records added

04

   Operations and FinOps Capabilities Enhancement

1.Cost and Quota-Related Optimizations
  • UI enhancement - Cost adjustment rules now support percentage display for adjustment coefficients

  • Price model classic mode now supports configuring free allowances for system disks (e.g., Ucloud system disks support free allowances)


  • Support for integrating with Azure's new billing API, which does not require an EA account but does not support syncing prepaid subscription billing data
2.Resource Pool & Business Group Resource Quota Enhancement
  • Business group quotas now support various resource types and calculations based on resource attributes; previously, only CPU/memory/disk could be calculated, while others were limited to resource      counts

  • Resource pool & business group resource quotas now support calculation types based on specifications, with CPU/memory in   specifications automatically added to CPU/memory quotas

3.Adjust Platform Cloud Cost Analysis Lic Control Menu
  • Platform lic includes basic billing capabilities; additional cost analysis lic is required for features like cost optimization, payment scenarios, and cost centers (detailed allocation)

05

Service Foundation Enhancement

1.Service Integration
  • Added comments in the Python script template of service integration components to avoid restarting the integration service

  • Support for integrating Infoblox IP address management system,   including querying, occupying, and releasing third-party integrated IP addresses

  • Support for integrating Fuyi centralized procurement settlement platform, including processes for freezing costs, periodic settlements,   submitting settlements, and invoicing

2.New Backup and Recovery Service
  • Support for integrating backup and recovery services, enabling unified backup of cloud servers, databases, and other resources in CMP

    • Integration with Alibaba Public Cloud cloud server backup service (HBR)

    • Integration with Alibaba Public Cloud database resources   (MySQL, SQLServer, PostgreSQL)

    • DBS logical backup service

    • Integration with Huawei HCS cloud server backup service

    • Refactored Veeam backup integration

    • Refactored backup services for Alibaba Public Cloud &   Apsara database resources (MySQL, SQLServer, PostgreSQL)

06

Platform Enhancement and Optimization

1.Support for Saving Various Scripts and IaC Information to Code Repositories

  • Ability to push platform IaC code and scripts to specified Git repositories, supporting synchronization of various scripts, blueprints, and components

2.UI/UX and Internationalization Enhancements
  • Default visibility and editability of rental time & retention time in cloud application & cloud resource deployment service card configurations, along with icon adjustments

  • Configuring the number of display items in lists now applies to all user pages

  • Add a dedicated tab for security group information in cloud   server details

  • Rename "Host Map" to "Health Map" under observable resource status menus

  • Optimize display of all script boxes, supporting full-screen tiled expansion

  • Change the style of security configuration/two-factor      authentication exempted user dropdown multi-select to checkbox

  • Support for configuring global JavaScript customizations applicable to all pages

  • Internationalization support for data views and data source lists and data

  • Add support for Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Portuguese in product internationalization, along with updates to existing multilingual support

  • When installation initial configuration is set to English, platform configurations are initialized to English content

3.Intelligent Analysis Optimization
  • Support for periodically exporting dashboards, dashboards,   reports, etc., to Excel files and sending them via email

4.Platform Security Capabilities Enhancement
  • Added new OIDC authentication mode for SSO

  • Mail service now supports Azure communication services

  • Support for configuring multiple MFAs simultaneously, allowing users to choose any configured MFA

  • Add API users; API user passwords do not expire and are not forced to change upon first login

  • Optimize audit content and role information

5.Platform System Module Upgrades and Security Enhancements
  • Upgrade software versions used by the platform system to officially maintained versions

  • Platform support for MySQL HA high-availability mode based on InnoDB Cluster

  • Ansible now supports MySQL InnoDB Cluster cluster installation and upgrades from Version 8.3.0, including upgrades from master-slave to InnoDB Cluster

  • Support for dynamic loading of log4j2 configurations for Tomcat WAR applications in VM/containerized deployment architectures, with default log level adjusted to WARN

  • Merge and reduce the number of background scheduled tasks to improve efficiency

  • Optimize MQ consumer reconnection capability for workers during network anomalies



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