Course Overview
This course provides technical professionals the knowledge and skills necessary to plan and design for robust cloud services. The course focuses on the governance, organizational, financial, and technology aspects as well as the management and operation of cloud services. The six key areas covered in this course are: 1) Cloud Services Lifecycle and Management, 2) Workforce Transformation for Cloud Services, 3) Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Services, 4) Cloud Services Operating Model, 5) Cloud-Native Application Development , and 6) Business Resiliency for Cloud Services.
Course Objectives
Provide an overview of cloud services planning and design
Explain the cloud services lifecycle and its phases
Explain financial planning related to cloud services
Describe how to build a cloud-native organization
Explain culture transformation goals
Describe cloud roles and responsibilities
Explain the role of governance planning in cloud environments
Differentiate between hybrid and multi-cloud
Explain multi-cloud integration challenges and best practices
List the factors to consider while choosing a cloud service provider Describe the role of cloud service brokerage in a multi-cloud
environment
Explain the key security threats and solutions in a multi-cloud
environment
Explain the importance of a multi-cloud management platform
Describe the differences between traditional and digital IT
Explain a cloud operating model and how it is influenced by Agile and
DevOps principles
Describe the importance of a product-based cloud application
development approach for cloud services
Explain infrastructure as code and how it differs from traditional
automation
Explain the benefits of value stream mapping
Identify the applications for modernization
Explain the options to modernize applications
Explain cloud-native strategy
Describe the confluence of DevOps and application lifecycle
Explain best practices to implement CI/CD, and version control system
Describe the importance of containers, microservices, Container as a Service
Explain cloud native platform deployment options
Describe the evolution of business resiliency
Explain resiliency maturity
Explain business resiliency capabilities along with its considerations
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for technical leaders such as cloud engineers, infrastructure administrators, or software developers as well as business leaders who need to manage cloud services. Typical learners would include:
IT professionals looking to better understand cloud computing
IT professionals responsible for architecting and managing cloud
services
Students and business professionals looking to pursue a career in
cloud computing
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Agenda
1 - Outline
- Cloud Services Lifecycle and Management
- Planning and Design Considerations
- Define goals and scope
- Performassessment
- Design cloud services
- Communicate
- Deliverables
- Lifecycle and Management Considerations
- Service Lifecycle Overview
- Waterfall and Agile Methodologies
- Cloud Services Lifecycle Phases
- Financial Planning
- Workforce Transformation for Cloud Services
- Modern cloud approaches
- Traditional cloud approach
- Modern cloud approach
- Cultural transformation
- Mindset and Leadership
- Align IT with Business Objectives
- Cross-functionalandcollaborativeteams
- Flexible workstyles and modern tools
- New cloud roles and responsibilities
- How to develop new cloud roles
- Governance planning
- Theneedforgovernance
- Goalsofgovernance
- Cloud governance
- Impact of service and deployment models
- Risk management for cloud services
- Riskmanagementframework
- Choosing a cloud service provider
- Cloud compliance standards
- Security for cloud services
- Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Services
- Introduction to multi-cloud strategy
- Hybrid cloud vs. multi-cloud
- Benefitsofmulti-cloud
- Multi-cloud use cases
- Multi-cloud considerations and best practices
- Integration
- Workloadmobility
- Interoperability
- Portability
- Selecting a service provider
- Servicebrokerages
- Security
- Multi-cloudmanagement
- Cloud Services Operating Model
- Traditional IT versus Digital IT
- Public cloud provider experience
- Build like a public cloud provider
- Define goals and scope
- Agile
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Product Development
- Infrastructure as Code
- Value Stream Mapping
- Benefits
- ProcessOverview
- Cloud-Native Application Development
- Identifying applications for modernization
- Application modernization options
- Rehost
- Refactor
- Replatform
- Cloud-native approach
- Monolithicarchitecturesvs.microservices
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Version control system
- DevSecOps 12-factorappmethodology
- Microservices
- Containers
- Business Resiliency for Cloud Services
- Business Resiliency Overview
- Whyresiliencymatters
- Evolution of Business Resiliency
- Resiliencymaturity
- Business Resiliency
- Capabilities and Considerations
- Resiliencymaturity
- DisasterRecovery
- Cloud-basedBackup
- DataSecurity
- Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps)