: Jeroen Mulder
: Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance Leverage Azure, AWS, GCP, and VMware vSphere to build effective multi-cloud solutions
: Packt Publishing
: 9781800201910
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: CHF 38.40
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: Sonstiges
: English
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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

Preface


Enterprises move environments to the cloud. Applications and systems are not migrated to just one cloud platform: enterprises will use a mix ofSoftware as a Service (SaaS),Platform as a Service (PaaS), andInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS), hosted on different platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and on-premises private clouds. Enterprises are adopting a multi-cloud strategy, leaving the architects and lead engineers with the challenge of how to integrate architectures and manage the enterprise cloud. Architects and engineers will learn how to design, implement, and integrate cloud solutions and set up controls for governance.

After the introduction of the concept of multi-cloud, this book covers all of the topics that architects should consider when designing systems for multi-cloud platforms. That starts with designing connectivity to and between the various platforms and creating the landing zones in Azure, AWS, and GCP.

The book is divided into four main sections, covering the following:

  • Operations, including setting up and managing the landing zones that provide the infrastructure for cloud environments
  • Financial operations including cost control and license management
  • Security operations, covering identity and access management, securing data, security information, and event management
  • Continuous delivery and deployment using DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and new concepts such as AIOps and Site Reliability Engineering

The book contains best practices for the major providers, discusses common pitfalls and how to avoid them, and gives recommendations for methodologies and tools. Of course, a book about multi-cloud could never be complete, but this book will provide you with good guidelines to get started with architecting for multi-cloud.

Who this book is for


This book targets architects and lead engineers who are involved in architecting multi-cloud environments. A basic understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform and overall Cloud Adoption Frameworks is required.

What this book covers


Chapter 1,Introduction to Multi-Cloud, provides the definition of multi-cloud and why companies have a multi-cloud strategy.

Chapter 2,Business Acceleration Using a Multi-Cloud Strategy, discusses how enterprises could accelerate business results by implementing a multi-cloud strategy.

Chapter 3,Getting Connected – Designing Connectivity, explains how to design connectivity to the platforms. All major public cloud platforms have their own connectivity technology such as Azure ExpressRoute, AWS Direct Connect, Google Dedicated Interconnect, VMware NSX, and more. The chapter provides an overview of the connectivity options.

Chapter 4,Service Design for Multi-Cloud, discusses governance in multi-cloud, using the Cloud Adoption Frameworks of cloud providers.

Chapter 5,Managing the Enterprise Cloud Architecture, covers the architecture principles of var