Platform 6

📣 It's Here! Itential's newest Cloud Deployment, Platform 6 📣

The key objectives behind the launch of Platform 6 focus on Security, Support, and Simplification:

• Security: Itential has reworked the platform’s backend to align with today’s cutting-edge technology, resulting in improved Platform performance and enhanced security.

• Support: You can now more easily self-service your use cases with a robust Integrations engine that offers expanded authorization and authentication support while providing detailed responses to assist in troubleshooting broken integrations. LCM has also been enhanced to offer an audit trail that shows how information has changed over time within an instance.

• Simplification: Enhancements to Projects empower users by alerting users to missing, corrupted, or altered references within their destination environments. Additionally, Projects has been simplified with a robust reference management system supporting the intelligent remapping of child jobs, transformations, forms, and other assets when moving, copying, or renaming projects and their components.

Featured Improvements

The following provides an overview of the features offered to customers as part of Itential Platform 6:

Integrations

The next generation of Integrations in Platform 6 expands authentication support, enabling customers to transition from Adapters to Integrations with fewer demands on system resources.

• Expanded support for global headers and parameters, with the ability to define query parameters, headers, and cookies across the Integrations.
• Ability to directly connect with external systems with additional OpenAPI 3.1 authentication and authorization, including support for Mutual TLS, OAuth2.0 Grant Flows, and OpenID Connect.
• Dynamic API Keys to improve the security of asset retrieval.
• Improved UI/UX with more detailed information provided within Integration responses to support troubleshooting.
• Simplified integration responses to ensure the information that customers need is easier to locate, and the return payload size is kept to a minimum.

Lifecycle Manager

Lifecycle Manager (LCM) in Platform 6 enables you to efficiently automate and manage large numbers of LCM instances.

• You can fully automate the creation, management, and deletion of LCM instances, reducing manual work and complexity.
• With Instance Groups, you can perform actions against multiple instances at the same time, removing the limitation of addressing each instance separately.
• You now have the ability to track changing properties within instances and the flow of instance data across time.
• By integrating LCM with Operations Manager, you can now set triggers for Lifecycle Resource Models and actions.

Projects

Platform 6 brings intuitive and intelligent reference management when importing assets into Projects, with better understanding to what a Project is referencing, especially between environments.

• With automatic discovery and remapping of references, manual rework has been eliminated. You can automatically discover and import all references from an imported asset, ensuring you have transparency into the function of a project.
• Upon import to a new environment, all external project references are validated within the new system. This ensures reference consistency across environments and prevents unexpected behavior during project promotion.

Core Enhancements

Itential has made major improvements to the Platform Core, with further enhancements to Platform security, reliability and performance.

• Implemented HashiCorp AppRole methods to support authentication between Itential Platform and HashiCorp Vault.
• Removed Angular to enhance Itential Platform stability, performance, and security.
• Implemented user defined encryption keys and key rotation to enhance user security.
• Implemented new Device Counts within Admin Essentials to easily see how many devices are connected to Itential Platform.

Major Deprecations

Deprecations and removals in Platform 6 are listed below. Please follow the guidance that's provided to maintain Itential Platform's functionality and performance.

Itential Resources

To discover more about Itential Platform, be sure to visit:

• Itential.com
• Itential's Developer Tools
• Itential's YouTube Channel