Chapter 4: Service Designs for Multi-Cloud

All cloud providers offer a cloud adoption framework that helps businesses to implement governance and deploy services, while controlling service levels and key performance indicators (KPIs) in the cloud. In multi-cloud environments, businesses would have to think about how to implement governance over different cloud components, coming from different providers, but still be able to manage it as a single environment.

This chapter will introduce the base pillars for a unified service design and governance model, starting with identities. Everything in the cloud is an identity. It requires a different way of thinking – users, a VM, a piece of code even. We will look at different pillars in multi-cloud governance and study the various stages in cloud adoption, using the cloud adoption frameworks of cloud providers. We will also learn how important identities in the cloud are and how we can create a service and governance design for...