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Provision
Provision infrastructure
For provisioning, IT ops needs to provide some constraints while maintaining the benefits of self-service.
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Embrace infrastructure as code
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Manage heterogeneity
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Incorporate dependencies
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Embrace infrastructure as code
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Secure
Secure applications & infrastructure
Rather than attempting to recreate the traditional 'castle & moat' approach, security professionals should focus on addressing the following core requirements:
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Distributed secrets management
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Encryption of data in flight and at rest
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Identity management
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Distributed secrets management
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Run
Run applications on any infrastructure
The architectural goal when considering the realities of multi-cloud is to enable diversity of application runtimes across one or more infrastructure providers. Therefore, two of the primary requirements are:
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Separation of concerns
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Efficient resource utilization
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Separation of concerns
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Connect
Connect applications across infrastructure
A core requirement of the cloud model is a common backbone in the form of a dynamic registry that describes where services and infrastructure components are running and allows hardware failures to be masked and mitigated. It also enables elasticity, without hard-coding or having a large portion of the infrastructure tasked with load balancing. This common backbone needs to:
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Dynamically discover services
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Describe real-time configuration
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Dynamically discover services
