Discovering the single-pane-of-glass view
We have come across the term single-pane-of-glass view a couple of times during this chapter. But what do we really mean by that? Typically, we mean that we have one console from which we can monitor and manage environments from multiple platforms. Imagine that we have cloud environments in Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. We might even have on-premises systems in privately owned data centers. If we want our system administrators to manage these environments, the chances are fairly high that they would need to log in to every single platform. For Azure, they would need to log in through the Azure portal, for AWS through the AWS portal, and so on. That is not very efficient.
The solution for this is to have one console where we can view the environments independently from the platform they run and, even better, manage the environments from this single console. Imagine it like a Swiss Army knife: a tool that we can use for different...