In multicloud or collaborative work environments, it is essential to maintain a good management optimization that allows you to control, supervise and manage resources, without forgetting other equally important tasks. It is there where the CloudOps as a practice to help any cloud provider and administrator.
Although it is not yet a well-known term, CloudOps is gaining ground as a formula for manage the delivery, optimization and performance of IT services and workloads running in a cloud. This is intended to improve performance, reliability and automation of processes.
CloudOps teams’ responsibilities include configuration management, resource allocation, throughput capacity optimization, compliance load management, and ensuring third-party service level agreements (SLAs) are met. or within the organization itself.
In addition, with the implementation of CloudOps they can set schedules for proper allocation of resources based on performance and cost considerations, proactively reporting and resolving issues, and ensuring security and policy compliance
CloudOps tools help providers and companies to optimize cloud management, APIs and application management.
Faced with the challenges of the cloud: CloudOps
This practice is intended to be an answer to the challenges faced by IT teams and partners when it comes to managing deployed clouds.
In this sense, a NetApp study states that 64% of IT decision makers continue to consider security and compliance as the main challenge of cloud operations. Almost the same percentage (60%) consider cost management another challenge.
95% of IT managers are automating cloud management
The automation that drives CloudOps is one of the lines of work to follow. In this same survey, 82% trust automation to improve administration and obtain a return on investment. So much so that 95% have already incorporated some type of automation tool and 88% will do so this year.
CloudOps and DevOps, two sides of one coin
The natural evolution in the cloud of DevOps is CloudOps. We could thus say that it is an extension since it is based on the same principles of continuous integration and continuous delivery to create the processes with the best performance and most adjusted in the cloud.
CloudOps establishes procedures and best practices for cloud-based processes, in the same way that DevOps does for application development and delivery.
Together with these concepts, FinOps also appears as a financial practice to manage cloud assets and obtain maximum profitability from them. On these points, although most executives consider it important for their business, only 9% have a mature practice.
The biggest FinOps challenges include reducing cloud costs (50%) and forecasting cloud spending (47%). Only 19% of those surveyed say they have been able to take full advantage of discounted cloud purchasing options.
