The CIOs Guide to Hybrid Cloud Automation

1. The CIOs Guide to Hybrid Cloud Automation

2. The CIOs Guide to Hybrid Cloud Automation • The Story of Hybrid Cloud • Historically, enterprises have had the option to choose between a private and public cloud. While each offered substantial benefits, they fell short in some areas. This led to the development and evolution of the hybrid cloud model that capitalized on the benefits of both. • While both private and public clouds had their own benefits and disadvantages, the hybrid cloud model delivered the best of both worlds. It offers numerous benefits, including • Complete control over data and workloads • Ease of scaling workloads to different cloud environment and instances • Enhanced security • Reduced costs • However, along with all these benefits, it also brought some challenges such as initial deployment costs, network bottlenecks, lack of security visibility, and the daunting task of managing multiple cloud environments. While most hybrid-cloud limitations can be taken care of with appropriate decision making, such as picking the right vendor and combination of clouds, the major problem that cannot be easily handled is managing the workload, and that’s where hybrid cloud automation scoops in.

3. The CIOs Guide to Hybrid Cloud Automation Factors to Consider While Automating Hybrid Cloud Hybrid cloud automation clearly offers numerous benefits to organizations. But that does not mean merely jumping on the bandwagon. Automating hybrid cloud must be a well-planned and organized step. Consider the crucial factors before beginning the automation to ensure its success. Pick up the right tools Hybrid cloud environments are highly complex. Hence, in most cases, picking the right tool often paves the way for the success of automation. Several tools are available, but the primary and most popular ones are: Puppet: Puppet provides a GUI-based configuration to automate day-to-day operations, making the IT teams’ life easier. The veteran tool is most renowned for automating Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Thus, you can use it to automate the scaling of your hybrid cloud infrastructure seamlessly. Ansible: Developed by Red Hat, Ansible is also a configuration tool just like Puppet. Its enterprise version has received a 4.4/5 rating from Gartner peer insights TM review. With Ansible, you can automate and orchestrate hybrid cloud processes using GUI, Domain Specific Language (DSL), or Rest API.

4. The CIOs Guide to Hybrid Cloud Automation • Kubernetes: Kubernetes does not directly automate hybrid cloud, but it is adept at automating dockers that can be run on the cloud. It is used for deploying and managing resources, services, networking, and more. • Managing internal and external clouds, distributed data from different operational lines and data security across various touch points become a significant issue. They also can't take full advantage of their IT and cloud infrastructure, which hampers business agility. Migrating and deploying a hybrid cloud, businesses get the best of both public and private cloud architecture worlds. Cloud automation helps enterprises leverage the benefits of hybrid cloud to the maximum extent. • Abstract • Hybrid cloud automation is not just a tactical solution, but rather a strategic way for businesses to quickly react to changing business requirements. To address customer expectations and overcome these challenges, IT leaders must implement hybrid cloud automation. Read this white paper as it chronicles the benefits, use cases, and the factors to be considered while automating the hybrid cloud. • Download the white paper to know more: • https://www.cigniti.com/resource/white-papers/cios-guide-hybrid-cloud-automation