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Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance

By : Jeroen Mulder
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Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance

By: Jeroen Mulder

Overview of this book

Multi-cloud has emerged as one of the top cloud computing trends, with businesses wanting to reduce their reliance on only one vendor. But when organizations shift to multiple cloud services without a clear strategy, they may face certain difficulties, in terms of how to stay in control, how to keep all the different components secure, and how to execute the cross-cloud development of applications. This book combines best practices from different cloud adoption frameworks to help you find solutions to these problems. With step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you’ll begin by planning the foundation, creating the architecture, designing the governance model, and implementing tools, processes, and technologies to manage multi-cloud environments. You’ll then discover how to design workload environments using different cloud propositions, understand how to optimize the use of these cloud technologies, and automate and monitor the environments. As you advance, you’ll delve into multi-cloud governance, defining clear demarcation models and management processes. Finally, you’ll learn about managing identities in multi-cloud: who’s doing what, why, when, and where. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create, implement, and manage multi-cloud architectures with confidence
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Introduction to Architecture and Governance for Multi-Cloud Environments
7
Section 2 – Getting the Basics Right with BaseOps
12
Section 3 – Cost Control in Multi-Cloud with FinOps
17
Section 4 – Security Control in Multi-Cloud with SecOps
22
Section 5 – Structured Development on Multi-Cloud Environments with DevOps

Chapter 11: Defining Principles for Resource Provisioning and Consumption

Cost control starts with guidelines and principles on when and what type of resources may be deployed and by whom. The way resources are deployed in different cloud platforms is different and needs alignment when an enterprise has adopted a multi-cloud strategy. In this chapter, we will discover that resource planning should be a part of our architecture. We need to define what type of resources we are planning to provision and how we can deploy them using the different methods that Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provide.

We will also learn how we can set budgets in our environment and how cost alerts can be set when budget thresholds are met. We will have a look at the tools that the public clouds provide in terms of cost control and management.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Avoiding Amex Armageddon with unlimited budgets
  • The provisioning...