SASE Orchestration

Scale is never achieved in a linear fashion as labor is never available at the rate of organizational growth. For an organization to scale at the pace of its growth, a non-linear or modular process is required. A successful process will require an understanding of architecture at both ten and one hundred times the currently needed sizing. Once the theoretical worst-case scenario is documented, the question of how must be asked. Assuming labor is static, how would it be possible to scale one hundred times the current size of the architecture? With human labor, it would be statistically impossible; therefore, non-human labor must be employed. Currently, the most effective way to scale infrastructure, virtual machines, or applications is to leverage an orchestrated model as well as an effective orchestrator. That orchestrator requires tools that abstract the process into modular components that are pre-built and made available on-demand.

In this chapter, we will...