Cloud public or private brings a lot of complexity while adding a lot of flexibility. There are a lot of things to consider while you're operating in this new exciting environment.

1. Presented by :
Orchestration
Trade-offs to think about
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2. Infrastructure components
• Nodes
– Compute
– DB
– Batch
• Load Balancers
• DNS
• Etc…
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3. Types of deploys
• Uptime
• Downtime
• Distributed?
• Centralized?
• HA?
• Recovery?
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4. Data Center puppies and herds
• Primarily driven by your data strategy
– Can your data survive the data center replacement?
• Legacy systems are an anchor and center of
gravity
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5. No node access
• Bake & brew
• Code review process
• Source control auditing
• Ship logs out
• Trash your SSH keys
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6. How your upgrade process looks like?
• Compute node?
– repeatable
– reuse?
– Fry vs. bake
– Configuration management?
– Secrets?
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7. How your upgrade process looks like?
• Databases?
– SQL vs. NoSQL
– Locking and blocking
– Migration?
• Schema?
• Data?
– Versioning?
• Schema?
• Data?
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8. Failures and healing
• Auto healing?
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