Morpheus Data LLC, an unified cloud orchestration software solution provider, announced today the launch of the newest version of its multicloud management platform.

Version 4.2 is focused on enabling continuous delivery and DevOps team support for customers using Kubernetes, VMware and Terraform. This update enhances governance and automation of existing Kubernetes clusters from providers that include Red Hat OpenShift, VMware vSphere 7 and more. It also reduces the cost and complexity of VMware private clouds, improves automation updates for Terraform and ServiceNow, the company said.

A newly launched continuous tag enforcement and compliance policy engine is also available for VMware, Amazon Web Services and Azure clouds to help keep metadata attached to provisioned servers consistent across enterprise networks.

“The pace of change in hybrid cloud and DevOps is driving demand for self-service platforms which can bring order to the influx of new technologies,” says Brad Parks, vice president of business development at Morpheus.

Customers using Kubernetes clusters can employ the newly updated Morpheus platform to build a unified orchestration framework that simplifies management across virtual machines, containers, bare-metal servers and cloud services.

According to a recent 451 Research survey, 36% of organizations have adopted Kubernetes, and 21% more are in the discovery phase. But too many of those organizations, according to Morpheus, continue to maintain VM-based applications and are building out cloud-native applications, which leads to complex setups.

With Morpheus, enterprises using technologies such as Red Hat OpenShift in Kubernetes projects can easily bring clusters into the same ease of control and security as on-premises hypervisors and public cloud stacks.

The 4.2 update for Morpheus also adds a number of updates for VMware NSX, network and security virtualization, including the ability to create and manage logical routers, switches, firewalls, edge gateways and Internet Protocol pools. Additionally, enhanced and more granular security is available with role permissions and network policies.

Infrastructure-as-code is becoming a core practice among DevOps organizations, which involves managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable configuration files. So Morpheus 4.2 supports its own native IaC template language in addition to providing support for Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM and HELM.

ServiceNow integration is also included with plug-in updates for Morpheus, which will follow managed application blueprints with the ServiceNow catalog.

Since attaching metadata tags to provisioned VMs and cloud instances is also a common way to monitor and manage assignments, project teams and other important business information, Morpheus now includes a governance solution that assures tag consistency. That’s done with a new Tag Enforcement and Compliance Policy engine that allows administrators greater control to strictly enforce tag compliance across networks. As a result, there will be no more accidentally orphaned tags because one user or group uses its own variant or enters a typo.

With this update, Morpheus believes its customers can stay adaptive, keep up with changes to major multicloud infrastructure software and continue to modernize their services and apps.

In the first quarter of 2020, Morpheus has already had two major software releases, and it saw more than 300% growth in 2019, though it doesn’t provide absolute numbers. This is also the second year Morpheus has been named a leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Management Platforms report.

“Our ability to quickly unify complex environments and automate workflows across clouds has led to a number of major competitive wins already this year,” said Parks.

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