What are cloud management platforms (CMPs)?

What are cloud management platforms (CMPs)?

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A gartner tease on CMPs

Clear as mud from Gartner

A way to manage your azure instances, or amazon instances, or VM ware instances

A way to autoscale or provision

A tool for an infrastructure team that controls the OS instances to run your applications

One might be doing this today through chef or puppet

How does CMPs take into account PAAS platforms?

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Here is how Orchestration, PAAS, and CMPs are compared

CMP stands for Cloud Management Platform. CMPs take an infrastructure-centric approach where the main focus is monitoring and managing of infrastructure resources such as virtual machines, storage, network etc. It can be used indirectly to manage applications by combining some orchestration capabilities as part of the platform.

PAAS is application centric

Orchestration is chef and puppet and batch away!