Nowadays, the Multi-cloud approach is more like a necessity than an additional deployment platform. The reason is, this approach is capable of driving higher productivity across the organizational environment. As per the latest Flexera State of the Cloud Report, 92% of enterprises contain a Multi-cloud Strategy, and 80% highly rely on a hybrid cloud strategy. 7 Reasons to Adopt Multi-Cloud Strategy for Enterprises in 2021 According to the latest news, major enterprises are attempting DevOps or DevSecOps to work together with the multi-cloud platform. Well, it is trickier than it looks as those enterprises have to deal with the complexity of targeting platforms and deployments, which is also known as CloudOps. This integration also comes with many new complexities for developers and operations teams, such as misconfigurations, lack of knowledge of proper native services, security loopholes, and operational issues, which must be solved just after the completion of the product deployment procedures. Even after that, developers and operators have to deal with too many dynamic parts, and there is still no guarantee of resolving it without making any further mistakes. Therefore, the big question arises, “Which approach should they choose to deal with the complexities of DevOps and Multi-cloud integration without generating any problems?” Let’s go through this blog.

Fundamental points:

At first, they should implement Infrastructure as Code, like microservices, and choose cloud-native patterns over VMs. But why choose IaC? IaC plays a vital role in combining applications’ platform configurations with their respective data. And by doing so, they have to specify their business requirements for specific platforms, like compute and storage configurations for the developers. Secondly, with the help of those configurations, developers can optimize the systems in a much better way than IaC, rather than using a common denominator approach for several applications, resulting in under-optimized outputs. The concerning issue of having a flexible and scalable process of a DevOps technological layer is that sometimes developers make things difficult easily. Therefore, they are advised to use common and simplified services. When developers use the multi-cloud approach, they have multiple choices, like using services of three or more public cloud providers, but in doing so, they require skills and supporting tools. And in order to use different security systems, databases, governance systems, and more provided by various cloud vendors, they need more time to run over, which always goes up. This results in increased complexity and may put you in trouble situations quickly.

Recommendation to Get Over This Issue:

It is important to note that DevOps Engineers should have a clear mindset for choosing common services. However, by implementing the IaC approach, it is possible to define prioritized & similar services in templates. Related Read: Defeating DevOps Challenges with Cloud Desktop Integration Thus, enforcing common security, governance, operations, etc., helps them reduce the global complexity of the deployed systems. The second recommendation is to provide a path for special cases when developers' requirements vary in the context of enterprises. Well, in some cases, enterprises need to understand the requirements of trade-offs before making exceptions.

Conclusion:

It is true that soon DevOps and multi-cloud platforms will merge for work and progress further. Plus, during this integration process, enterprises get to learn a lot of challenging lessons. So, they must follow the mentioned guideline to avoid complexities and computation troubles. In order to know more about our Managed IT Services offerings, contact us now!