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Charting the course: DDI Central’s vision ahead

 
Terraform and Salt Support: Incorporating DDI into IaC workflows
DDI Central will extend its automation capabilities by integrating with Terraform and SaltStack, two of the most widely adopted Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and configuration management tools. With this support, network administrators can programmatically provision and manage DNS zones, DHCP scopes, and IP address allocations directly from their existing IaC pipelines. A native Terraform provider will allow declarative configuration of DDI Central resources, while Salt modules will enable seamless orchestration of DDI tasks alongside server and infrastructure automation. This integration brings DDI services fully into modern DevOps and GitOps workflows, ensuring consistent, version-controlled, and repeatable network configurations across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
High scalability for Windows: Lightweight Windows agent for collective policies
DDI Central will introduce a lightweight Windows agent purpose-built to deliver high scalability across environments managing large fleets of Windows endpoints. The agent will streamline enforcement of collective policies, push centrally defined DNS, DHCP, and IPAM configurations to thousands of Windows hosts, and stream telemetry back to DDI Central without burdening the underlying systems. By replacing heavy polling cycles with an efficient agent-based model, organizations can extend DDI Central's reach across enterprise-scale Windows deployments, reduce network overhead, and accelerate the rollout of configuration and policy changes.
Kea DHCP Support
DDI Central will add native support for ISC Kea, the modern, modular DHCP server engineered as the successor to legacy ISC DHCPD. Kea brings high-availability clustering, dynamic configuration through REST APIs, and pluggable hook libraries that allow administrators to extend functionality without recompiling. With this support, customers can centrally manage Kea-based DHCP infrastructure alongside existing ISC DHCPD, Microsoft DHCP, and Cisco DHCP deployments from a single console. This enables organizations to modernize their DHCP estate at their own pace, leverage Kea's enhanced performance for large dynamic environments, and benefit from active community-driven development—all without losing the unified visibility and control of DDI Central.
Cloud Native Assets Observability expansion: Azure, GCP observability beyond AWS
DDI Central will broaden its cloud-native asset observability beyond AWS to fully encompass Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This expansion will provide deep visibility into virtual networks, subnets, virtual machines, load balancers, and managed DNS zones across all three major hyperscalers. Administrators will be able to monitor cloud-resident IP allocations, track asset lifecycle changes in real time, and reconcile cloud workloads with on-premises IPAM data from a single pane of glass. This unified, multi-cloud visibility eliminates blind spots, simplifies governance, and ensures consistent IP address management across heterogeneous, distributed environments.
Enhanced Discovery: Richer layer-2 device, firewall and endpoint discovery
DDI Central will deliver a significantly enhanced discovery engine that goes well beyond traditional Layer-3 scans. The upgraded module will provide richer Layer-2 device discovery—mapping switches, ports, VLANs, and MAC-to-IP relationships—along with deeper visibility into firewalls and endpoint devices. By correlating data from SNMP, ARP tables, and firewall policy databases, administrators gain a comprehensive, topology-aware view of every connected asset in the network. This level of insight strengthens IPAM accuracy, accelerates troubleshooting, surfaces shadow devices, and supports compliance with internal asset inventory and audit mandates.