Cloudchef Platform 8.4.0 Officially Released | Product Capabilities Fully Enhanced, Platform Security and Engineering Upgraded

Cloudchef Platform 8.4.0 Officially Released | Product Capabilities Fully Enhanced, Platform Security and Engineering Upgraded

Published: 2026-02-25 11:10

Cloudchef Technology has officially released Cloudchef Platform version 8.4.0! After nearly four months of development, version 8.4.0 delivers comprehensively enhanced product capabilities, with further upgrades to platform security and engineering. Key features in this release include:

• Expanded support and improvements for more cloud platforms and cloud products

• Component support for service integration; orchestration and scripts support execution on third-party systems

• Platform scripts and content can be saved to third-party code repositories; scripts can be synchronized from test to production via Git

• Resource quotas now support using all physical cluster resources with configurable overcommit ratios

01 Cloud Platform Integration and Resource Management

• New integration with Sangfor AD, with support for synchronizing Sangfor AD load-balancing resources

• Adapted for ZStack ZSphere integration, supporting VM deployment using templates

• Adapted for the new Google GCP API, supporting VM creation, import, synchronization, and deletion

• Support for Huawei Fusion Compute 6.3 API compatibility

• Huawei Fusion Compute now supports folders

• Support for Huawei Fusion Compute VM migration

• Support for Huawei Fusion Compute cloud gateway

• Generic Cloud FC resource pool / network resource list now displays Port Group ID

• PortGroups created via EPG+DCS(FC) can automatically update to the resource pool and refresh the IP pool configured for the VLAN

• Sangfor SCP integration: tenant selection now occurs after adding a cloud account

• Sangfor SCP cloud hosts now support configuring LVM and file systems

• Sangfor SCP VMs now support configuring vCPU models

• Integration with Sangfor AD, supporting synchronization of Sangfor AD load-balancing resources

• Adapted for the new version of Volcengine private cloud veStack Kafka

• Support for OpenStack VM high-performance networking

• SmartX CloudTower cloud hosts now support configuring LVM and file systems

• Support for SmartX CloudTower VM resource note synchronization

• Alibaba Cloud public cloud SDK access now supports enforcing HTTPS connections

• Support for automatic renewal of Tencent Cloud subscription-based VMs and cloud resources

• UCloud configuration adjustment now supports displaying architecture version in specification information

• Enhanced Redis Exporter with Multi-Target mode, enabling a single Exporter to monitor multiple instances simultaneously

02 Resource Model and CMDB Enhancements

• Enhanced resource topology UI with new cloud resource health index display

• Resource topology cloud resource selection page now displays total resource count and pagination

• Software collection tasks selecting existing resources now support selecting all cloud resources (previously only specific resources could be selected for collection)

03 Resource Operations Enhancements

• Generic Cloud VM Day-2 operations now support updating VM name

• Generic Cloud VM now supports resetting OS hostname

• Application stack, VMs, cloud resources, databases, and asset list display and query capabilities optimized

• Extended attributes now support sorting

• Search now supports full-text search across description fields

• Support for filtering resources without associated application systems

• Cloud resource tag filtering now supports search with hierarchical display

• Authorization configuration restructured with support for disabling roles on specific operations, making it easier to configure global operation restrictions (e.g., when SSH is unavailable, disable WebSSH, script execution, software installation, etc.)

04 Service Configuration and Request Optimization

• Service cards now support disk (system disk & data disk) parameter visibility, editability, and required-field configuration

• VM & cloud resource generic names are hidden by default; the request name is used as the default

• For virtualization platforms without predefined specifications, users can now input CPU and memory values

• VM initialization scripts can now access resource pool tags and request parameters from the VM request

• Optimized resource pool dropdown sorting when specifying resource pool policies; when multiple resource pools match the tag, resources are allocated sequentially

05 Work Order and Workflow Optimization

• Performance optimization for multi-level approvals: resource pool quota validation is only triggered when quota-related parameters change at any approval stage (e.g., switching resource pools or changing specifications)

• Support for accessing form data from all preceding nodes at any workflow stage

• Deployment tasks adjusted to asynchronous processing to prevent database connection timeouts caused by synchronous waiting in pipeline deployment tasks

06 Service Integration and Improvements

• Service integration adds an operations automation group, supporting script execution and device query operations

• Integration with Huawei OceanProtect backup and recovery services, with support for Huawei DCS VM backup operations

• Enhanced Infoblox service integration with CIDR-based IP retrieval and DNS A record creation

• Integration with Huawei DCS CSHA cross-site high availability, supporting creation and deletion of protection groups for VMs

• Component support for service integration; orchestration and scripts support execution on third-party systems, including third-party script execution engines such as Ansible Enterprise Edition and Terraform Enterprise Edition. Software components can invoke script execution through third-party systems (typically automation platforms)

07 Script and Configuration Git Repository Support

• Components, models, and scripts can be saved to an independent code repository (Git), supporting synchronization between two CMP instances and saving scripts and data to third-party repositories for easier maintenance and historical tracking

• After configuring a code management repository, users can pull the latest version, enabling code editing with third-party editors, Git version control, and CMP only needs to pull updated content

• Support for two CMP platforms sharing a single Git repository, with support for importing from test environments to production environments (achievable through service integration task configuration)

08 Cloud Platform and Resource Pool Configuration

• Extended cloud platform integration now supports displaying the actual cloud type of the connected platform

• Resource pool synchronization strategy resource types now sorted by name

• Resource pool resource synchronization strategy execution cycle now supports custom Cron expressions

• Enhanced resource pool resource quotas: virtualization platforms using physical resources now support configuring overcommit ratio limits, with new support for Sangfor SCP, SmartX, ZStack, and PVE using all physical resources

09 Operations and FinOps Enhancements

• Pricing model page UI adjusted: billing script input changed to a standard script box, adjustment coefficients converted to percentages, and system currency units removed

• Cost data now synchronizes billing tags and displays them in lists and details

• Allocation rules: pre-processing allocation now supports allocating to cost centers

• Support for subscription resources billed by pricing model, with refund upon unmounting

• Azure cloud platform new billing API now supports configuring Department ID

• Azure billing now supports RI (Reserved Instance) amortized cost billing

10 UI/UX

• Optimized personal profile with more contact information configuration and display

• Menu configuration for internal links no longer requires including the platform’s own IP address in the URL

• Application system full filter & selection (including forms) dropdown now supports sorting by name (A-Z)

• System UI configuration now supports configuring attachment file size and type restrictions, including attachments on work orders and forms

11 Platform Functionality Enhancements

• WeChat Work mini-program CorpID and AgentID now support direct configuration on the UI

• Various asynchronous scripts (such as expert billing scripts) execution errors now support alert notifications configured via event settings

• Notification message sending (excluding two-factor authentication verification) now supports retry

• CLI adds the overwrite parameter, supporting overwriting existing data during import

12 Platform Security Enhancements

• Credentials now support configuring password strength validation

• UI route navigation now checks current user permissions

• Operations audit now supports recording VM & cloud resource key-value tag operations, with enhanced application system operation audit record parameters

• Captcha-based login authentication now auto-refreshes on error

• LDAP account login with plaintext passwords now encrypted and fixed

13 Platform System Module Upgrades and Security Hardening

• Platform runtime OS now supports RedHat 9.6 and RockyLinux 9.6

• Installation process improvements:

•   – Support for automated NFS installation via Ansible during deployment

•   – Support for automated NTP configuration for all VMs via Ansible

•   – Support for automated system log push configuration via Ansible

• Post-installation manual OS hardening check — manual execution only for projects where we provide the OS

• Upgrade process now preserves modified parameters without auto-overwriting — input.json supports parameter configuration for each software service

• Platform database access now supports SSL connection encryption (client-side SSL connections)

• Platform now supports a simple built-in backup solution

About Cloudchef

Cloudchef is a leading provider of cloud management and digital operations solutions, dedicated to helping enterprises accelerate their digital transformation through innovative cloud management platforms and services. With core products including the SmartCMP cloud management platform and AtlasClaw AI Agent, Cloudchef serves over 2,500 enterprise customers across finance, government, education, manufacturing, healthcare, and other industries. The company has been recognized as a Shanghai High-Tech Enterprise and has received multiple industry awards for its contributions to cloud management and IT operations innovation.