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Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects - Second Edition

By : Jeroen Mulder
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Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects - Second Edition

By: Jeroen Mulder

Overview of this book

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of your enterprise with the transformative power of multi-cloud adoption? As a cloud architect, you understand the challenges of navigating the vast array of cloud services and moving data and applications to public clouds. But with 'Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects, Second Edition', you'll gain the confidence to tackle these complexities head-on. This edition delves into the latest concepts of BaseOps, FinOps, and DevSecOps, including the use of the DevSecOps Maturity Model. You'll learn how to optimize costs and maximize security using the major public clouds - Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Examples of solutions by the increasingly popular Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud have been added in this edition. Plus, you will discover cutting-edge ideas like AIOps and GreenOps. With practical use cases, including IoT, data mining, Web3, and financial management, this book empowers you with the skills needed to develop, release, and manage products and services in a multi-cloud environment. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered the intricacies of multi-cloud operations, financial management, and security. Don't miss your chance to revolutionize your enterprise with multi-cloud adoption.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Index

Exploring tools for CI/CD

The tooling landscape for CI/CD and DevOps is massive and changes almost every month. There's no right or wrong answer in choosing the toolset, as long as it fits the need of the enterprise and people are trained in the usage of the tools. In this section, the native CI/CD tooling in the major clouds are discussed: Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline and CloudFormation and Google Cloud Build. We will also look at tooling for Alibaba Cloud and OCI.

First, we will look at Kubernetes, since that will be likely be the platform that we’ll use in multi-cloud. Key components of Kubernetes CI/CD are:

  • Container management
  • Cluster operations
  • Configuration management for the underlying infrastructure
  • Version control system
  • Image registries for Docker container images.
  • Security testing and audits
  • Continuous monitoring and observability

To create a good pipeline, we should consider the following design principles:

  • All-in-one CI/CD tool instead of cloud-specific...