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Simple Tweaks to be Relevant in a Cloud World
#ITDEVCONNECTIONS | ITDEVCONNECTIONS.COM
Rick ClausCloud Advocate
Microsoft
@RicksterCDN
Current state
It’s time for “The Cloud” conversation…
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Progression towards the cloud
PaaS/Serverless
Application platform
Rehost Refactor Rearchitect Rebuild Replace
SaaS
SaaSAzure Migration
IaaS Containers
Container platform
On-Premises
Migration
triggers
Quickly integrate acquisitions
Urgent capacity needs
Software and hardware refresh
Security threats
Compliance
Application innovation
Software end
of supportDatacenter contracts expiry
TrustedIntelligentHybridProductive
Lets Review “some” Major Trends✓Mainframe & terminals
✓The “PC”
✓Terminal Emulator Software
✓FAX Machines
✓Client Server applications
✓The Internet
✓Directory Service wars
✓Email Systems
✓Storage Area Networks
✓Distributed applications
✓Virtualization (+server sprawl)
✓Mobile computing
✓BYOD
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How do you take these challenges and turn them into opportunities?
pivot
• Install server hardware
• Configure the network
• Install the OS• Update, update, update and WORRY that you are not up to date…
• Manage storage and backup
• Apply security policies
• Manage Virtual Machine Images
• Manage certificates
• Deploy applications
• Monitor application/OS health and performance
What do Ops folks do today?
Fundamental Infrastructure architecture
You currently manage:
Systems designed for fault tolerance
Systems designed for high availability
You already know:
OS / Application install / optimization
DNS name resolution
IP subnetting
Firewall Port configuration
VPN networking
Domain Controller architecture (Identity)
• I spend 80% of my time installing software across hundreds of different environments and just getting it to work…
• Everything is so fragile – that’s why patching and software updates is hard – things just break all the time…
• We never have enough resources and time to do proper testing and so everything is a bit of a guess, based on worst possible case scenarios…
• There’s no time to be pro-active, we just re-act to system down situations…
What’s THE Problem..?
Inventory, Update and Translate your skills
Virtualization and OS images
Observations: “Cloud means running at the speed of light and being able to deploy quickly. I can quickly create proof of concept for a project in half a day instead of weeks.”
Observations: “Infrastructure as Code Configuration files”
Observations: “SCALE: it’s the biggest change for me and all the folks out there that are moving from an on-prem world to cloud scale. Like you said no shiny boxes with flashing lights, cable management, cooling, etc. Just run a script and hit go!”
50 EXPRESS ROUTE LOCATIONS 70,000 MILES OF
FIBER 130+GLOBAL EDGENODES
Azure Region
Edge Site
Announced Azure Region
Observations: “Security and Monitoring – it’s built in”
Observations: “I troubleshoot less – because I don’t care about monitoring or responding to hardware-level issues. That’s what Azure engineers are for…
I experiment more often – because it’s easy to spin up isolated resources without having to order in hardware and I can shut it all down with no leftover hardware when I’m done. Low impact on my budget. (Fast and cheap)
I experiment more fearlessly – because my demo environments in the Cloud are isolated from production, I can try new things and even test random scripts I find on the internet in a disposable environment I can easily rebuild if it all breaks.”
Observations: “In the past, you deploy an app, add backup and then maybe think about DR. With the cloud these concepts are already baked in whether it’s IaaS/PaaS/SaaS. DR is simply part of the package.
Five-ten years ago, this was an expensive add-on, with incredible complexity and cost…
Backup and DR are simply part of Azure.”
Observations: “Better to be a learn-it-all than a know-it-all – Thinking I always had the answer made me miss out on learning experiences. In being eager to learn, I have been able to adapt quicker to address complex problems and find new passions in technology to explore.”
Cloud Ops Advocacy
August 1st, 2018
The Team…
Anthony Bartolo
Phoummala Schmidt
David Blank-Edelman Jason Hand Jeramiah Dooley Marcelo Bellinaso Michael Bender
Neil Peterson Rick Claus Pierre Roman Sonia Cuff Steven Murawski
Things we do
Technical guidance for IT/Ops teams to be successful on Azure
Established members of our target communities
Advocate to the product team on behalf of the community
Takeaways
• Be the expert at bringing scalability, resilience, agility and innovation to your apps and services…
• Shift from being a project “constraint” to an enabler…
• Work on “interesting”, “strategic”, “valued” projects, not break-fix…
• MAKE THE TIME to learn all the cool stuff
We all have to embrace our inner geek after all ☺…
How to connect with Rick?http://about.me/rickclaus
Twitter: @RicksterCDN
http://ITOpsTalk.com