Summary

In this chapter, we explored methodologies that are used to analyze enterprise or business strategies and mapped these to a cloud technology roadmap. We also learned that it is close to impossible to keep track of all the new releases and features that are launched by cloud and technology providers. We need to determine what our business goals and objectives are and define a clear architecture that is as future-proof as possible, yet agile enough to adopt new features if the business demands this.

Enterprise architectures using frameworks such as TOGAF and IT4IT help us in designing and managing a multi-cloud architecture that is robust but also scalable in every aspect. We have also seen how IT will shift along with the business demands coming from traditional to rationalized and dynamic environments using software as a service, containers, and serverless concepts, eventually maybe adopting the Twelve-Factor methodology.

In the next chapter, we will be getting a bit...