Chapter 8: An Ounce of Prevention – Planning Your Administrative Model

In a fast-paced enterprise setting, many practitioners find themselves building piecemeal solutions to complex business challenges in reaction to the changing demands and urgent deadlines imposed upon them by the business. As both Identity and Access Management (IAM) and the cloud are high-value, business-enabling technologies, it can be challenging to take the time before implementation to contemplate what a sustainable implementation pattern looks like for the business. Although engaging in this planning exercise may frustrate some stakeholders, organizations that fail to plan out their cloud administrative models often find themselves limited by their own short-term technical solutions. Solving use cases such as these should be a holistic, multi-step design and analysis process.

In this chapter, we will evaluate how we would like to apply an administrative model to the Redbeard Identity organization...