CloudShell
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Cloud infrastructure automation software
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DevOps software
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What is CloudShell
CloudShell is a cloud infrastructure automation and orchestration platform used to model, provision, and manage application environments across public cloud and on-premises infrastructure. It is commonly used by platform engineering, DevOps, and IT operations teams to standardize environment delivery, enable self-service catalogs, and support ephemeral “sandbox” or lab environments for development and testing. The product emphasizes blueprint-based environment modeling, governance controls, and integrations with external automation tools and CI/CD systems.
Blueprint-based environment orchestration
CloudShell provides a structured way to define environments as reusable blueprints that can include infrastructure, networking, and application components. This supports repeatable provisioning and reduces reliance on ad-hoc runbooks. It also fits use cases where teams need consistent environments across multiple projects or business units.
Self-service with governance controls
The platform typically supports self-service provisioning through catalogs while enforcing policies such as approvals, quotas, and access controls. This helps central teams provide guardrails without manually fulfilling every request. It is particularly relevant for shared lab, test, and training environments where resource usage and permissions need oversight.
Integrates with DevOps toolchains
CloudShell is designed to integrate with external automation and delivery tooling (for example, configuration management, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and CI/CD pipelines). This allows teams to trigger environment provisioning as part of build/test processes and to connect environment lifecycle actions to existing operational practices. It can reduce the need to replace established tools when adding orchestration and governance.
Setup and modeling overhead
Implementing blueprints, catalogs, and governance typically requires upfront design work and ongoing maintenance. Organizations may need dedicated ownership to keep models aligned with changing cloud services and internal standards. For smaller teams, this overhead can outweigh benefits compared with lighter-weight approaches.
Not a full PaaS runtime
While it orchestrates infrastructure and environments, CloudShell is not primarily a managed application runtime in the way some PaaS offerings are. Teams may still need separate services for application hosting, managed databases, and runtime-specific operations. This can increase the number of platforms to operate if a unified PaaS is the goal.
CI/CD depth depends on integrations
CI/CD capabilities are typically realized through integration rather than being an end-to-end native pipeline system. As a result, pipeline features, developer experience, and observability can vary based on the connected tools and how they are configured. Teams may need additional engineering effort to standardize workflows across groups.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | Free | 1 GB data transfer, 25 devices, TLS/SSL channel, optional AES encryption, custom domain name, 24/7 support. Can be converted to Team or Business. |
| Team | $40 per month ($480 billed yearly) | 20 GB data transfer, 250 devices, TLS/SSL channel, optional AES encryption, custom domain name, 24/7 support. Billed as $480 yearly (auto-renewal) per site text. |
| Business | $80 per month ($960 billed yearly) | Unlimited GB data transfer, unlimited devices, TLS/SSL channel, optional AES encryption, custom domain name, 24/7 support. Billed as $960 yearly (auto-renewal) per site text. |
Seller details
Quali Systems Ltd.
Tel Aviv, Israel
2010
Private
https://www.quali.com/
https://x.com/QualiSystems
https://www.linkedin.com/company/quali/
