Managing a Hybrid and Multicloud Environment

Management of a hybrid and multicloud environment is a complex topic as it spans computing activities in on‐premises data centers, private and hybrid clouds, and numerous public cloud environments. Organizations no longer look at individual computing resources as stand‐alone systems. Rather the combination of the data center, private and public cloud, and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications now define computing. This chapter discusses what it means to manage computing in the era of the hybrid cloud. Using Cloud Access Management can be explicitly given rights to specific SaaS applications, and governance specified for what information they can access. Every cloud resource comes with a contractual agreement, known as a service level agreement that outlines what the provider is delivering, along with the customer's responsibilities. Nowadays, best practices for developing software for the cloud are based on DevOps practices.