Simplified Multi cloud management
Hello again.. am back with yet another story of how you can manage your multi-cloud. In my last conference OSIDAYS I first talked about this term multi-cloud. well a no surprise response I got was – yet another marketing term . Nothing wrong in seeing this as a marketing term when most of the IT is now happening on cloud and more and more born in the cloud organizations are coming up. So, what does Multi-cloud mean? At least in my point of view – it is a combination of on premises resources, resources on
any cloud (be it Microsoft Azure, AWS, Rackspace etc.), VMware resources. The list is not complete yet. When I have challenge in listing itself, assume what could be the challenge you have in maintaining/managing the same?
Though I may not talk about an one stop solution to manage your multi cloud resources, definitely this post helps you to understand that we have a solution to simplify your multi-cloud management. That is nothing but Microsoft Operations Management Suite.
In my previous post I talked about what are the core components of Microsoft OMS. Here I will just show how you can manage your open source components as well (mostly Linux). Well there are ways to configure your Linux machines to do Operations management and bring in operations insights for the VMs that you manage. Here is one such way how to manage your standalone Linux VMs in OMS. Download and install OMS agent for Linux and install in the VM and you are all set to manage.
Similar to that, now DevOps is the buzzword and how Microsoft helps you with that? Below are the list of devops practices that we emphasize on.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Continuous Integration
- Automated Testing
- Continuous Deployment
- Release Management
- App Performance Monitoring
- Load Testing & Auto-Scale
and these are very well integrated with the DevOps tools which helps you ease of management of resources.
- Configuration Management: Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible
- Environment Management: Docker Orchestration, Mesos DCOS, Canonical “Juju”, Microsoft System Center
- Source Code: GitHub Enterprise
- Monitoring: Ops Insights, DataDog, NewRelic, others
Next post I would explain more in detail on the OMS capabilities with detailing on solution packs.
Happy reading !