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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

Summary

In this chapter, we’ve explored the main pillars of cloud adoption frameworks, and we learned that the different frameworks overlap quite a bit. We’ve identified the seven stages of cloud adoption up until the point where we can really start migrating and transforming applications to our cloud platforms. In multi-cloud environments, control and management are challenging. It calls for a single-pane-of-glass approach, but, as we have also learned, there are just a few tools—the one ring to rule them all—that would cater to this single pane of glass.

One of the most important things to understand is that you first have to look at identities in your environment: who, or what, if we talk about other resources on our platform, is allowed to do what, when, and why? That is key in setting out the governance model. The governance model is the foundation of the service design.

In the last section of this chapter, we’ve looked at the different...