Cloudockit Release Notes

Release v4.4 – September 28, 2020

General

• Availability Zones of Virtual Machines are now included in the settings section
• Service Map can now be used to detect dependencies between components
• RegionEndpoint.CNNorthWest1 and RegionEndpoint.CNNorth1 are now unchecked by default
• Users can now click on their name to view their profile that currently contains their product key and expiration date
• Cloudockit now includes at least one Aggregation Link from a CDKCategoryCDK_SecurityAndManagement_OrganizationalUnit component in the JSON file. This will allow you to ensure that you do not have ‘orphan’ resources in your JSON files
• Cloudockit Container logo now displays when container setup mode is enabled

Compliance rules

• Cloudockit now supports the following Compliance Standards: PCI, HIPAA (preview) – Learn More
• You can also create your own internal standards and associate your own compliance/governance rules to those internal standards – Learn More

Cloudockit Desktop

• Cloudockit Desktop now features Button Run Now available in the scheduled job window
• Cloudockit website now features a direct link to Cloudockit Desktop User Guide
• One day free trial can now be enabled for the desktop version
• Cloudockit Desktop now allows specifying the number of days to go back when retrieving billing information
• Cloudockit Desktop Trial process has been simplified to avoid asking for confirmation many times
• Cloudockit Desktop now supports the ability to scan AWS, Azure, and GCP on a single EC2 instance and store the results to one central S3 bucket

Diagrams

• Cloudockit now generates native diagrams.net (draw.io) files (xml formatted) instead of using the Visio to Draw.io function. – Learn More
• Cloudockit generates native draw.io files instead of using the Visio to draw.io conversion feature. The draw.io native files are in preview for now
• Improved quality of diagrams generated for API Management
• Cloudockit now has Tags directly in the diagrams, in the Shape Data, to easily visualize your Tags directly in your diagrams – Learn More
• Cloudockit now features a brand new way to generate your diagrams exactly the way you want: Tailored Diagram Generator

Documentation

• Updated Word template to include compliance standards

Api

• Custom template attribute has been added to the list of API attributes
• Cloudockit API Web User Interface now displays Powershell & Curl command line before users click on Execute

Azure

• Service map is now used to automatically detect dependencies between virtual machines to draw diagrams accordingly. You can see, for example, in the diagram below that there is a communication (red arrow) between two virtual machines – Learn More
• Visio diagrams now support Ctrl+Click on shapes to navigate immediately to the Azure Portal on a specific shape, like a Virtual Machine in the following screenshot – Learn More
• Billing information in Cloudockit JSON files for Azure automatically fall back to the closest resource if no match is found
• In Visio Diagrams, for Azure Diagrams, you can now click on the Shape itself (Ctrl+click) to open the Azure Portal for this specific resource
• Compliance Rules that are at the Azure Subscription Level (and not associated with a specific Azure Resource) are now associated with the Subscription
• Azure Cognitive Search is now supported
• Diagrams with multi-line table shapes (like Azure Route Tables/NSG) now displays only the 5 first lines in the shape itself and all the lines in the shape data to avoid huge shapes that increase the diagram sizes
• Cloudockit Desktop is now available for download directly from the Azure Marketplace (ADD LINK)
• Cloudockit Reports now include OS Running in an Azure Service Fabric

AWS

• Backup: AWS Backups are now fully documented by Cloudockit. Cloudockit will give you lots of information like the settings, backup rules, and copy configuration – Learn More
• Cloudockit Desktop and API now supports JsonBillingDimension, JsonBillingType parameters to limit the data retrieved when scanning AWS Billing and also supports IncludeBillingTags, TagValuesToScanForBilling  parameters to specify Tags Keys or Values to retrieve
• AWS Batch is now included in Cloudockit Documentation. Batch settings, resource requirements, and environment are included in the documentation – Learn More
• Cloudockit now extracts AWS AMIs and their OS info, and integration into an EC2 instance
• Cloudockit’s ability to scan AWS Organization, Organization Root, Organization Units, and Account structure has been revamped. On the AWS Master Account, Cloudockit automatically scans Organization Root, and Organization Units & Accounts to extract the AWS structure. On AWS non-Master Accounts, Cloudockit automatically retrieves the Organization that is tied to the Account
• Cloudockit now features AWS System Manager with support of EC2 Instances
• Cloudockit supports Tags extraction on AWS Accounts
• AWS Simple Workflow is fully documented in Cloudockit reports. You will see information like Settings, Registered Workflow Types, and Registered activity types – Learn More
• Links between AWS Cloudstack and Resulting Instances are now detected
• Links between AWS Cloudstack and resulting instances are now detected
• AWS Lightsail is now supported
• Extraction of billing information in AWS is now limited to the current account being scanned
• AWS and GCP Diagrams now display the IP Ranges for subnets and VPC in the diagrams
• AWS Backup is now fully supported

Google cloud

• Cloud Billing export to BigQuery is now used, instead of deprecated .csv files, to retrieve billing information from Google Cloud. – Learn More
• Cloudockit Google Cloud Documentation now features billing diagrams
• JSON Files for Google Cloud now expose label-level billing for GCP, for a list of labels requested
• Cloudockit Reports now features all the components used by EKS Service and Google Kubernetes Engines (Compute/VNET)