Devops is more than just a fast way to build and deploy software within the cloud and on traditional systems. It’s now a solid standard, with best practices, processes, and widely accepted tools.
However, as multicloud becomes the new path to cloud computing, I’m asked how it will impact existing devops programs. Specifically, how development may change and what problems need to be addressed before and after moving to devops to leverage multicloud platform targets.
Tuhin PaulPosted Feb 16, 2023, 10:45 AM
The introduction of multicloud presents both challenges and opportunities for devops programs. On one hand, it enables greater flexibility and agility in deploying applications across multiple cloud platforms, and can provide greater resilience and redundancy. On the other hand, it can also introduce complexity and require additional efforts to manage the infrastructure and orchestrate deployments.
I think below I can summarize few pointers going forward how Devops programs may need to adapt to multicloud environments:
1. Devops teams may need to invest in new tooling and infrastructure that can work seamlessly across multiple cloud platforms, rather than relying on platform-specific tools. This can involve developing custom automation and configuration management scripts that can be used across multiple environments, or adopting more cloud-agnostic tools like Kubernetes or Terraform.
2. With multiple cloud providers comes the need to manage and maintain security and compliance across all platforms. This may require additional tooling and processes for managing identity and access, as well as monitoring and logging.
3. Multicloud environments can introduce complexity in terms of governance and cost management, as it may be challenging to keep track of resource usage and costs across multiple providers. Devops teams may need to implement processes for tracking and managing resource usage, as well as optimizing costs across all platforms.
4. Multicloud environments can provide greater resiliency and disaster recovery capabilities, but they require additional planning and testing to ensure that applications can failover seamlessly between providers. Devops teams may need to invest in testing and automation to ensure that applications can be deployed across multiple environments without downtime.
Hope my anwer can give you some hints to your question.