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What is CloudOps?
What is CloudOps?
What’s the difference between CloudOps and ITOps?
Going from static to dynamic infrastructure requires new ways of thinking about IT operations.
ITOps for efficient data center operations
- Static, dedicated servers hosted in-house
- Complete ownership and control
- Troubleshoot physical servers and hardware
- Traditional operations across siloed IT, security, and business teams
- Once in a while optimization
CloudOps for procuring, managing and optimizing cloud resources and services
- Infrastructure is delivered as-a-service (IaaS) and hosted by third-parties services
- Distributed, complex environments accessed remotely
- Scale out at any time and pay as-needed
- Cross-functional domains operate with DevOps principles
- Ongoing optimization
The pillars of CloudOps serve as a roadmap for evolving operations to support your business in a cloud-based environment.
Make the cloud visible and accessible
Align business imperatives to cloud operations and execute strategies that unlock long-term value in the cloud.
Power operations with intelligent automation
Automation that is proactive, and responds to the changing requirements of the dynamic business applications it supports.
Continuously optimize
Achieve optimal performance and maximum efficiency by extending the principles of CI/CD to cloud operations.
Gaining visibility in the cloud is the first step to gaining control
Visibility should focus on delivering the data you need to make informed business decisions. Companies that are successful in operating the cloud have visibility that connects performance, cost, usage, and reliability.
Look for tools that help make your cloud:
Holistic + integrated
Build monitoring as a continuous loop that not only collects data across multi-cloud environments but integrates with other IT and Ops tools.
Accessible + aligned
Leverage tagging to connect business stakeholders to applications and provide ways to place cloud services in a business context.
Efficient + reliable
Spot problems before they arise, enforce governance, and manage costs and budgets more accurately.
Drive value
Identify opportunities for optimization of configurations, utilization, security and costs.
Find out more about cloud visibility with Spot and CloudCheckr
Learn MoreAutomation leads to scalability
To meet the on-demand delivery of cloud resources, automation capabilities are necessary across CloudOps domains to close the gaps in spending, security and maintenance processes. Applying automation lets you standardize operational functions like provisioning, and configuring resources so you can scale fast and efficiently.
When looking to implement automation of cloud operations, look to enable:
Continuous operations
Cloud visibility turns into actions with self-healing and auto-provisioning for maximum performance with minimal interruption.
Dynamic, flexible services
Expand and iterate quickly to meet SLAs as workload requirements change.
Availability and security
Build best practices into automated workflows that protect deployments against security risk and disaster.
Integrate with CI/CD
Extend the DevOps toolchain with autonomous and self-service tools for repeatable processes.
Find out more about automation in our DevOps guide to infrastructure automation
Learn MoreRealize the promise of cloud
Cloud optimization focuses on the key areas of utilization, cost and security to realize long-term value, and can’t be achieved through troubleshooting and monitoring alone. Rather than a one-time activity, or when applications fail, optimization is an ongoing cycle where intelligence drives automation to ensure cloud environments are always secure, performant and free of waste.
Optimization practices and processes should be:
Automatic and ongoing
Implement tools that enable cloud infrastructure to instantly react to new traffic patterns, code and events.
Predictive and adaptive
Driven by AI and machine learning, optimal solutions and improvements are found and automatically promoted.
ROI-driven
Define spending processes that maximize value per spend, realign and redistribute resources, and use cloud technology to monitor, execute and enforce strategies.
Find out more about optimization strategies in our guide to infrastructure right-sizing in a cloud native world
Learn MorePutting CloudOps to work
The cloud requires a new operating model where the domains of DevOps, security and finance are aligned to run the cloud as efficiently and as optimized as possible. These teams need to maximize value by leveraging cloud-based tools and processes to execute operations and deliver the benefits of the cloud to the business.
DevOps
Ongoing processes to operate and manage tools that are used to maximize value, maintain availability and enable fast development.
FinOps
Bring accountability to cloud spending and enable cross-functional teams to make decisions that best support business logic.
SecOps
Create and enforce comprehensive policies that maintain security of cloud environments without compromising normal business operations.
Pillars
Domains
DevOps
- Application performance and monitoring
- Environmental health
- Software delivery
- Infrastructure provisioning
- Workload management
- Resource utilization and right sizing
FinOps
- Cloud usage and cost show back
- Identify optimization opportunities
- Cloud asset management
- Resource allocation
- Leverage cloud pricing models
- Cloud resource lifecycles
- Resource utilization and efficiency
- Forecasting and budgeting
- Commitment lifecycle
SecOps
- Configuration monitoring
- Resource inventory
- Threat detection
- Alert remediation
- Policy enforcement
- Incident response
- Threat protection
- Alert prioritization
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