Integration with tools like Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD which automate different stages of the development lifecycle facilitates the creation of efficient and streamlined multi-cloud DevOps pipelines.
Multi-cloud can be the Swiss Army knife of sorts for DevOps — it adds versatility and adaptability to the established DevOps practices and methodologies. Most importantly, it restores the power of choice, allowing DevOps to strategically pick and choose from various cloud providers based on the unique requirements of each application and its various components through all development phases.
With multi-cloud DevOps, you may pick the most cost-effective cloud platform for development and move to another one for its robust testing tools during testing. For production, you can choose yet another cloud for its best-of-breed security features and global network infrastructure.
Certainly no “cloud”walk, successful multi-cloud DevOps demands one crucial factor — consistency! Application deployments, configurations, and behaviors must be consistent across diverse cloud environments. But variations in infrastructure setups, resource configurations, or dependencies can lead to scenarios where an application behaves differently on one cloud environment compared to another. It can be hard but oh-so-rewarding once you nail it. Below, we share our recommendations for building a robust multi-cloud-based DevOps pipeline for achieving uniform performance, security, and functionality across any environment.
Vendor provided toolchains like AWS CodePipeline are often tightly coupled with their underlying platforms. The goal is to make it difficult to migrate or add other clouds to the mix. Instead, utilize tools compatible with different platforms from the get go. It will allow consistent deployment pipelines across any underlying cloud infrastructure you may choose down the line.
As an example, a cloud-agnostic toolchain could comprise Git for code commit, Jenkins for build automation, Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, and JUnit for test automation. These tools support integrations with multiple cloud providers, promoting adaptability and mitigating the risk of deployment inconsistencies or lack of support when transitioning or communicating across various cloud environments.
Abstractions allow DevOps to define standardized interfaces and templates that provide a consistent and simplified way to interact with resources across different cloud providers. This can be done through practices such as virtualization, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) which abstract the underlying complexities of diverse cloud infrastructures at various levels. Standardization comes handy when different applications and application components deployed in different clouds need to communicate. The key is to adopt a platform-agnostic approach which involves choosing standardized containerization platforms like Docker and Kubernetes and IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible.
Automation lies at the heart of DevOps. Automate tasks like provisioning, configuration, testing, and deployment to avoid errors and inconsistencies that inevitably occur with manual intervention. Through automation, repetitive tasks like scaling infrastructure, deploying updates, and managing configurations become manageable across all cloud environments. It not only ensures consistency in application delivery but also creates a foundation for a more reliable and seamlessly scalable multi-cloud DevOps environment.
Adopt a centralized monitoring and management platform like the emma platform for a consolidated view of all cloud environments. Centralized monitoring and management can provide end-to-end visibility across the entire cloud infrastructure and a single source of truth for DevOps and CloudOps that must work collaboratively to ensure seamless multi-cloud DevOps deployment. Multi-cloud DevOps can look daunting, but with the right processes and platforms in place, it doesn’t have to be.
The emma cloud management platform, a comprehensive cloud management application, provides a holistic set of features, empowering DevOps teams to span their application deployment across any number of cloud or cloud types with remarkable efficiency, consistency, and reliability. Here’s how the emma platform can help:
The emma platform provides a single, user-friendly interface for finding the most suitable cloud provider for applications and their components based on location and pricing offers. DevOps can centrally deploy applications on any cloud and leverage the emma platform’s cutting-edge AI for analyzing workloads, predicting behavior and gathering usage insights for cost optimization informed decision-making.
emma’s cloud management application provides a unified platform with holistic monitoring and management capabilities that span across all cloud environments — public, private, and hybrid. DevOps can identify resource hogs, set project-based resource limits, create usage policies, define and manage roles, receive switching recommendations, and migrate applications, all through a single application.
The emma platform provides in-app integrations with third-party tools and platforms for building a comprehensive, cloud-agnostic DevOps toolchain. DevOps can choose and deploy their familiar tools for security, storage, development, automation, and more from emma’s marketplace. Integrations with tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, Redneck, and GitLab CI/CD allow DevOps to utilize the emma platform as a one-stop-shop for their entire DevOps toolchain.
The emma platform abstracts away the complexities associated with underlying cloud infrastructure. It provides DevOps with a standardized, no-code interface for creating and deploying instances on any cloud of their choice. All it takes is a few clicks and no coding which enables development to provision the resources and configure the environments they need without adding burden on Ops.
Integration with tools like Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD which automate different stages of the development lifecycle facilitates the creation of efficient and streamlined multi-cloud DevOps pipelines.
emma’s cloud management platform is a powerful ally for DevOps teams navigating the complexities of multi-cloud environments. Equip DevOps with the emma platform’s comprehensive features and seamless integrations to realize full multi-cloud potential through seamless and efficient multi-cloud DevOps pipelines.
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