Chapter 5: Managing the Enterprise Cloud Architecture

In the previous chapters, we've learned about different cloud technology strategies, looked at a model for identity and access management, and started drafting a multi-cloud network topology and a service model, including governance principles. Where do we go from here? From this point onward, you will be – as a business – managing your IT environments in multi-cloud. Successfully managing this new estate means that you will have to be very strict in maintaining the enterprise architecture. Hence, this chapter is all about maintaining and securing the multi-cloud architecture.

This chapter will introduce the methodology to create an enterprise architecture for multi-cloud using The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). We will study how to define architecture principles for various domains such as security, data, and applications. We will also learn how we can plan and create the architecture in different...