With cloud use exploding and cloud bills skyrocketing, enterprises are implementing new cloud governance processes and tools. A cloud management platform (CMP) will be a foundational technology you’ll need to get it all under control. We cover the 5 stages of cloud management that enterprises go through to fully manage their cloud use, and how a CMP helps.

1. THE 5 STAGES
OF CLOUD MANAGEMENT FOR
ENTERPRISES

2. • Bailey Caldwell
• VP Customer Success, RightScale
• Kim Weins
• VP Marketing and Cloud Cost Strategy, RightScale
Presenters

3. • What is Cloud Management?
• The Role of a CMP
• The 5 Stages of Cloud Management
• Visibility & Organization
• Cost Reporting
• Cost Optimization
• Policy Automation
• Provisioning and Orchestration
Agenda
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4. Processes, platforms, and tools
for orchestration, management,
governance, and optimization
across all of your
public and private cloud environments
What Is Cloud Management
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5. Top Initiatives: Optimize Cloud, More Cloud
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6. Maturing Your Cloud Management
5
Immediate
Next

7. Maturing Your Cloud Management
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Reactive Responsive PreventativeProactive
Fire drill Manual policies and
processes
Automated policies
and processes
Prevent issues
before they occur
Cost Management & Optimization
Cloud Management Platform

8. WHY CMP?

9. Cloud Management Platform Capabilities
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Source: Gartner “Evaluation Criteria for Cloud Management Platforms and Tools”
April 25, 2018 Marco Meinardi, Alan D Waite

10. RightScale Cloud Management Platform
VIRTUAL
SERVERS
PUBLIC
CLOUDS
ANY CLOUD
SERVICE
PRIVATE
CLOUDS
BARE METAL
SERVERS
CONTAINER
CLUSTERS
RIGHTSCALE CMP
EXTENSIBLE ORCHESTRATION API
Self-Service
Template-based
end user provisioning
Optima
Cost management and
collaborative optimization
Cloud Management
Multi-cloud visibility,
automation, and operations
Policy-Based Governance
User access controls and policies

11. 5 Stages of Cloud Management
Visibility &
Organization
Policy
Automation
Cost Allocation
& Reporting
Cost
Optimization
Provisioning &
Orchestration
1 2 3 4 5
RightScale Optima
RightScale CMP

12. Your Order May Vary...
Visibility &
Organization
Policy
Automation
Cost Allocation
& Reporting
Cost
Optimization
Provisioning &
Orchestration

13. DISCOVERY & ORGANIZATION

14. Public + Private
Clouds Used
Average Median
Running applications 3.1 3.0
Experimenting 1.7 1.0
Total 4.8 4.0
Respondents Average More than Four Clouds
Source: RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report

15. Stage 1: Visibility & Organization
Key Steps:
1. Aggregate/normalize cloud bills
2. Aggregate/normalize cloud usage
3. Resource discovery
4. Implement tagging
Visibility &
Organization
1
What are
we using in each
cloud?

16. Visibility into Cloud Resources
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One pane of glass
All clouds
All cloud accounts
All regions

17. • Cost Management
• Cost allocation
• Reporting
• Chargeback and showback
• Cost optimization
• Governance
• Compliance
• Security
• Operational/Technical
• DevOps processes
Purposes of Tagging
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18. Tag Type Examples Purpose
Environment env = dev
env = prod
Used to identify the environment
type
Ownership bu = bigbu
costcenter = sales
region = emea
owner = jsmith
customer = bigco
One or more tags used to allocate
costs
Application app = bigapp
svc = jenkins
One or more tags to define the
application or service
Compliance dataresidency = germany
compliance = pii
compliance = hipaa
One or more tags to define and
compliance requirements
Optimization schedule = 12x5
maxruntime = 14days
expiration = 15-07-2018
One or more tags to use in
automated optimization
Some Recommended Global Tags
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19. • RightScale across clouds
• via UI and/or API
• Cloud provider tools allow
• via console and/or API
• Leverage templates
• AWS CloudFormation, Azure Templates, etc.
• Leverage automation
• Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.
Automated Tagging
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20. COST REPORTING

21. Public Cloud Spend Is Growing
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22. Stage 2: Cost Reporting
Key Steps:
1. Allocate cost into “billing centers”
2. Share costs with owners
3. Analyze spend
4. Provide reports & budget alerts
Cost Allocation
& Reporting
2
Who is spending
what?

23. Hierarchical Allocation of Costs
Billing Center 1
BC 1A BC 1B BC 1C
Billing Center 2
BC 2A BC 2B BC 2C
Billing Center 3
BC 1A BC 1B BC 1C
Split by
account or tag
Split by
account or tag
Split by
account or tag
Bills

24. Reporting for Billing Center Owners

25. COST OPTIMIZATION

26. Cloud Waste Is Significant
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27. Stage 3: Cost Optimization
Key Steps:
1. Customizable recommendations
2. Collaboration
3. Automated action
4. Feedback loop
Cost
Optimization
3
Where can we
reduce waste?

28. Dynamic Optimization
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Collaborate
Monitor
Autom
ate
Continuously monitor
the cost efficiency of
your cloud environment
Share information and
get feedback from
resource owners
Automate optimization
with opportunity for
manual intervention
Optimized
Cost

29. Stage 3: Cost Optimization

30. POLICY AUTOMATION

31. Few Organizations Are Automating Policies
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32. Stage 4: Policy Automation
Key Steps:
1. Automated policies
2. Alerting
3. Automated action
Policy
Automation
4
How can we
automate
governance?

33. RightScale Policy Management
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34. Delete unattached volumes after x days
Delete snapshots older than x months
Downsize underutilized development instances
Tag or shutdown untagged resources
Alert on underutilized or expiring reserved instances
Alert on services that increased by more than x%
Secure unsecured storage buckets
Shutdown idle resources
Example Policies
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35. PROVISIONING AND
ORCHESTRATION

36. Companies Use Multiple Configuration Tools
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37. Stage 5: Provisioning and Orchestration
Key Steps:
1. Multi-cloud orchestration engine
2. Multi-cloud templates
3. Integrate configuration tools
Provisioning &
Orchestration
5
Easy, governed
provisioning
across clouds and
services

38. Integrate Provisioning/Configuration Tools
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Google Cloud
Deployment
Manager
RightScale CMP allows the ‘right tool for the right job’
for DevOps, provisioning, and configuration.

39. RightScale template
RightLink agent RightLink agent
RightScale template
RightLink agent
RightScale + Other Provisioning Tools
Cloud
Deployment
Cloud
Deployment
Cloud
Deployment
Visibility Governance Policies Cost ManagementOrchestrationMonitoring

40. A Common Orchestration Engine
VIRTUAL
SERVERS
PUBLIC
CLOUDS
ANY CLOUD
SERVICE
PRIVATE
CLOUDS
BARE METAL
SERVERS
CONTAINER
CLUSTERS
RIGHTSCALE ORCHESTRATION
EXTENSIBLE ORCHESTRATION API
Self-Service
Template-based
end user provisioning
Policies
Define and enforce
governance rules
Operations
Automated
operational actions
Cloud Workflow Language
Orchestrate via fault tolerant global-scale backend
Service
Plugin
Service
Plugin
Service
Plugin
Service
Plugin
Service
Plugin
Service
Plugin
Service
Plugin

41. Cloud ecosystem is exploding
A CMP is a critical foundation
Cost and governance is a good place to start
RightScale CMP integrates with multiple
configuration/provisioning tools
RightScale CMP can manage and govern regardless of what
tools are used for provisioning
Takeaways
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42. Contact sales@rightscale.com for more info
Definitive Guide to Multi-Cloud Strategy
www.rightscale.com/lp/multi-cloud-strategy-guide
Q&A
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