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3 Best Practices To Make Cloud Migration Easier

Cloud migration. It’s a term that comes up in most enterprise conversations at least once. While the term represents the practice of moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud infrastructure, what is meant by “cloud migration” has evolved. Cloud migration is no longer as simple as moving from on-prem servers to AWS EC2. It could include moving to managed databases or API gateways, or maybe you need AWS for some workloads and Azure for others. Perhaps you’re a financial or public sector organization, and you need a private cloud. Or maybe you need to meet special regulatory requirements.

In this article, we’re going to look at three best practices for making cloud migration easier for your enterprise:

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What Are The Key Challenges a Platform Team Experiences?

With the increased reliance on various technologies for software development, both software and hardware need to grow along with those technologies to provide reliable and secure services. However, this need has led to creating more complex solutions than ever. Thus, the importance of robust infrastructure has come to the forefront to deliver these solutions reliably at a global scale. Due to these facts, the platform team has to face different challenges to provide and maintain this infrastructure without affecting the software development lifecycle (SDLC) or end-users.

What Is a Platform Team?

We have Dev for development, QA for testing, and likewise, the platform team for managing the infrastructure of an organization. This infrastructure includes both internal SDLC resources like CI/CD pipelines, staging/testing environments, production resources, and in most cases, managing software deployments. The platform team will handle most operational aspects of an SDLC. They are the key component that manages most of DevOps tools and platforms, bringing the full benefits of DevOps.

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Will Automated Cloud Optimization Replace Your DevOps Job?

Replacing human folly for algorithmic efficiency means faster and better service and a "perfect cheeseburger" every time. So what can you expect when automated solutions start making decisions about your cloud infrastructure? Well, with the tasks it can do, automation certainly buys you time to do more interesting things than micromanaging your cloud infrastructure.

I wrote a guide to help you understand the impact of automation on your job and whether it will really put your DevOps, cloud engineer, or solutions architect job at risk anytime soon.

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Cloud factory – Architectural introduction

cloud factoryThis article launches a new series exploring a cloud factory architecture. It's focusing on presenting access to ways of mapping successful implementations for specific use cases.

It's an interesting challenge creating architectural content based on common customer adoption patterns. That's very different from most of the traditional marketing activities usually associated with generating content for the sole purpose of positioning products for solutions.

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Getting Started With IaC

Infrastructure as code (IaC) means that you use code to define and manage infrastructure rather than using manual processes. More broadly, and perhaps more importantly, IaC is about bringing software engineering principles and approaches to cloud infrastructure. In this Refcard, explore the fundamentals of IaC and how to get started setting up your environment.
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A Guide to Open-Source IaC Testing

Introduction

Over the past several years, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platforms, such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes, have rapidly gained traction as the preferred mechanism to provision and manage cloud infrastructure. And for good reason.

It wasn’t that long ago that ClickOps was the dominant approach for cloud management. Everyone is sympathetic to the need for agility when there is a business-critical change required. “Just log onto the console” can seem like a perfectly justifiable action. It usually is…until it isn’t.

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2021 IaC Forecast: 5 Predictions for the Upcoming Year

I would like to start a tradition — I am going to gather all the discussions I had last year with customers and will craft my predictions on how DevOps and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2021. As most of my discussions with customers are always focused around Infrastructure as Code (IaC), this is where I feel I can most accurately speculate. 

The world of automation has changed in the past year, remote work, support of remote business, the new digital era, and pandemic constraints will force infrastructure and code automations to level up in 2021. All in all, it is clear that the direction is more automation and less manual work.

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Building Pipelines With Terraform Cloud

Having a robust and effective CI/CD pipeline is the key to shorter sprints and effective iterations of cloud-native applications. In order to push updates regularly and successfully, you have to incorporate a number of things into the pipeline, including testing and security.

Terraform is used to build, maintain, and update cloud infrastructure. It runs from your desktop and communicates directly with cloud service providers like AWS.

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CI/CD with Cloud-Native Applications

Continuous integration and continuous delivery, an approach now known as CI/CD, is more than just an approach for developing and delivering apps to customers. While CI/CD changes how apps are deployed—introducing smaller iterations and faster deployment in the process—the approach itself gets adopted differently. Especially for cloud-native applications.

When you implement CI/CD for deploying cloud-native applications, the approach becomes an inseparable tool that streamlines the whole development and deployment phases. In fact, cloud-native applications can be made more robust in the long run when their development integrates with pipelines based on the CI/CD approach.

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Functional Testing on the Cloud: 12 Ways to Do it Better

A good automated test suite gives actionable feedback, helps fix bugs faster, and enables rapid delivery of software. A good automated test suite on the cloud does it more cost-efficiently. But more often than not, functional testing on the cloud ends up delaying feedback, increasing flakiness, and providing zero visibility into the failures—results that are completely at odds with initial expectations. It ends up hampering the pace of rapid delivery lifecycle.

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To truly make the most of functional testing on the cloud, you have to reconsider the testing practices you follow. At BrowserStack, we help thousands of customers run functional test suites on the cloud every month. Our QA and Support teams identified certain practices that, when applied, can help teams of all sizes get better builds in less time.

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Understanding the Significance of Cloud Culture

Do more in the cloud with a cloud culture.

Public, private, hybrid, and hyper-scale cloud models continue to take the global economy by storm. Such is the penetration of the cloud model across all businesses that cloud service integration goes far beyond the remit of an IT department and requires board-level leadership. Welcome to the dawn of cloud culture.

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Leading From The Top

The cloud has the potential to be a transformative technology that offers flexible, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure. So the vendor and technology deployment decisions taken before migration must match each company’s unique business requirements.

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5 Reasons to Choose Microsoft Azure Cloud for Your Enterprise

Enterprises across all industries, sizes and geographies have been tapping into the power of the cloud. Gaining widespread use over the last few years, cloud computing has made it easier for businesses to get an edge in the digital age. Gartner survey predicts cloud computing as a $300 billion business by 2021. More and more companies are recognizing the business advantages of cloud computing and leveraging it to run their organizations efficiently, better serve their customers and increase profit margins.

Cloud computing boosts cost efficiency, promotes collaboration, aids disaster recovery, increases mobility and provides flexibility for businesses. If you are planning to migrate your virtualized workload to the cloud, then it is crucial to choose a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) that can best match your business, operational, security and compliance needs.