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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

Exploring AIOps tools for multi-cloud

The market for AIOps is in its infancy, although market analysts expect that use of AIOps will grow from around the current 5 percent to 30 percent of big enterprises in 2023 (refer to https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/how-to-get-started-with-aiops/). This explains why a lot of leading IT companies are investing heavily in AIOps. Manufacturers include big names such as IBM, Splunk, VMware, Moogsoft, Dynatrace, BMC, and ServiceNow. But there are a lot more tools that are certainly worthwhile to have a look at, such as DataDog, ExtraHop, FixStream, Grok, and StackState, just to name a few.

How does an enterprise choose the right tool? When an enterprise is working in multi-cloud, it needs AIOps that can handle multi-cloud. These are AIOps platforms that have APIs to the major cloud providers and can integrate with the monitoring solutions of these providers and third-party tools that enterprises have in the cloud environments. An example...