Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance: Leverage Azure, AWS, GCP, and VMware vSphere to build effective multi-cloud solutions

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

What you will learn
Get to grips with the core functions of multiple cloud platforms
Deploy, automate, and secure different cloud solutions
Design network strategy and get to grips with identity and access management for multi-cloud
Design a landing zone spanning multiple cloud platforms
Use automation, monitoring, and management tools for multi-cloud
Understand multi-cloud management with the principles of BaseOps, FinOps, SecOps, and DevOps
Define multi-cloud security policies and use cloud security tools
Test, integrate, deploy, and release using multi-cloud CI/CD pipelines
Who this book is for
This book is for architects and lead engineers involved in architecting multi-cloud environments, with a focus on getting governance right to stay in control of developments in multi-cloud. Basic knowledge of different cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP, VMWare, and OpenStack) and understanding of IT governance is necessary.