Bridging a Multi-Cloud Environment

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1. Bridging a
   Multi-Cloud
   Environment
   Tim Hockin
   Google Cloud
   

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3. Availability
   Locality
   Risk
   Isolation
   Legacy
   Acquisitions
   Multi-Env
   

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4. By 2021, over 75% of midsize
   and large organizations will have
   adopted a multi-cloud or hybrid
   IT strategy*
   *Gartner, Predicts 2019: Increasing Reliance on Cloud Computing Transforms IT
   and Business Practices, December 2018
   +75 %
   

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5. Using multiple clouds means
   you are exposed to all of the
   differences between them
   ● UI, API, CLI
   ● Product capabilities
   ● Identity, Auth
   Cacophony
   

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6. Differences between clouds run
   deep, impact what you build,
   and how you operate
   ● Networking
   ● Storage
   ● Autoscaling
   ● App lifecycle
   Experience
   

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7. The logical solution to variations
   across platforms is new
   abstractions
   Abstraction
   

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8. It’s very easy to accidentally
   depend on facets of a specific
   environment and get stuck
   Lock-In
   

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9. Mastering one cloud is hard;
   mastering multiple clouds can
   be overwhelming
   Training
   

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10. You don’t want to train your
    teams on multiple clouds
    You don’t want to tailor your
    deployments for each cloud
    Consistency
    

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11. Look for abstractions that are
    widely adopted and which are
    supported by the underlying
    providers
    Standard
    

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12. Consistent, flexible CLI & API
    Abstraction of infrastructure
    Single dev / ops experience
    Highly portable workloads
    Kubernetes
    

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13. High-level enough to hide the
    worst differences between
    clouds
    Low-level enough to run almost
    anything
    Elevate
    

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14. Build your custom platform on a
    solid foundation that abstracts
    the infrastructure
    Platform
    

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15. Kubernetes is not an island
    Ecosystem
    

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16. Numerous options and solutions
    exist, and people are ready to fill
    in the gaps
    Leverage
    

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17. There are no magic bullets
    No system is perfect
    Anyone who says otherwise is
    selling something
    Reality Check
    

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18. Kubernetes can be the thread
    that ties multi-cloud solutions
    together, but it is not a solution
    on its own
    Future
    

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