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Cloud Management platforms  - Every thing you need to know

 

CMPs provide a means for a cloud service customer to manage the deployment and operation of applications and associated datasets across multiple cloud service infrastructures, including both on-premises cloud infrastructure and public cloud service provider infrastructure. In other words, CMPs

provide management capabilities for hybrid cloud environments. Hybrid cloud adoption has expanded the role of IT operations and created a demand for adaptable management tools capable of supporting the complexity of hybrid cloud deployments.

 

 

The CMP plays an essential role to simplify management, enable visibility and optimize utilization of resources in a multi-cloud environment. The intent of this section is to highlight the core functional capabilities needed to achieve this goal. These core capabilities are represented by four categories: General; Service Management; Financial Management, Resource Management, Governance and Security. Effective and efficient management of hybrid cloud environments require rich CMP capability in each area.

 

 

 

  • General Services - A flexible foundation is needed to enable integration, provide for self-service and give feedback to users. The capabilities needed to establish foundation include: Portal, Service Catalog and Analytics and Reporting. This represents the web user interface with which the client interacts. Clients can place orders, track, and manage their cloud service subscriptions.

 

  • Automated Provisioning & Service Management: The intent of service management is to simplify service requests and manage resources to ensure business service levels are achieved. Service Management Capabilities include: Service Level Management, Service Monitoring and Capacity Monitoring.

 

  • Financial Management - Automating cloud resource consumption tracking and spend is a critical CMP capability. Accurate, real-time analysis and reporting along with predictive analytics is required to contain cost. Financial capability includes: Metering, Cost allocation, Chargeback / Showback, Invoicing and Forecasting.

 

  • Resource Management - A CMP must provide visibility to cloud resource management of virtual resources (application, server, storage, and network) and deliver services on-demand when needed. The capabilities needed to effectively and efficiently manage resources include: Discovery, Tagging, Provisioning/De-provisioning, Orchestration, Cloud-to-Cloud Migration.

 

  • Governance - Hybrid cloud services must be managed in accordance with organization policies. Governance capabilities include: Policy-based Management and Compliance.

 

  • Security - Security of hybrid cloud services must be managed in accordance with company policies. Security capabilities include: Encryption Management and Identity and Access Management.

Integration is a critical aspect of a cloud management platform. Cloud Management platform should be able to access internal and external IT systems efficiently. Cloud Management platform should support APIs and customization. This enables cloud management platform to bring together disparate cloud environments to create centralized control. These integrations are built leveraging tools like ESB or native integration capabilities. Some of the key areas where integration is essential include:

  • Private cloud. Private hosted cloud resources are managed via APIs made available by the private cloud provider like IBM, Azure, AWS, in much the same way as public cloud resources. The platform should also integrate with container orchestrators, such as Kubernetes.
  • Public cloud: The CMP should integrate with public cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform. This makes it possible for IT admins to manage the resources residing on the public cloud platform.
  • Enterprise management: The cloud management platform should be able to integrate with existing enterprise systems. This will enable it to provide capabilities, such as configuration management, incident management, financial management, and asset management.
  • Service automation: Enterprises will have to consider integration with existing automation tools to make resource management easier. E.g., configuration management tools, and deployment tools like Ansible.
  • Identity and access management: Leverage enterprise SSO and role-based permissions where possible.
  • ERP and financial systems: Collect metering information from the CMP for billing, invoicing and internal chargeback.
  • Automation tooling – automate deployment according to rule sets and manage resource configuration.
  • Infrastructure monitoring – visibility of operational data to support SLA management, security alerts, threat monitoring.
  • Business process rules systems or other business systems that include rules used for such things as governance of cloud consumption or self-service, approval flows, and billing.

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Sameer Paradkar
Enterprise Architect - Modernization Domain

Software Architect, Author & Speaker

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