CloudOps is only next to DevOps

 As we realized DevOps will be the next thing, with the previous blog(DataOps - Next only to DevOps), MLOps bus currently stops in the intelligence as AIOps, and a new terminology was in use by Gartner from 2017. Even before that Microsoft released CloudOps to true to their belief it is the Software analytics focused for Cloud Computing. 

Here we discuss the recipes for operation on the cloud.

CloudOps is the SRE that is for resilient, scalable solutions aiming at continuous product environment integration and smooth application deliveries. CloudOps enhances the techniques and services it offers true to the promise of cloud paradigms. Hence an existing first receipt for success is already available if a DevOps-enabled system with the tools from CloudOps shall bring the best of both such that customers don't have to focus on choosing this or that. 

Pillars of CloudOps are the next recipe for success of CloudOps, which is also dictated from software analytics terms viz.,

1. Abstracting the infrastructure that could be accessed in a single dashboard,
2. Provisioning as self-service or as automated, 
3. Policies and metrics to measure the usage mostly from an ROI perspective
4. Automation of core processes, a clean core if fully automated and separated lies the success even for cloud operations like security, user management, and integrations

Bursting maintenance in the cloud is the next main thing for successful operation in the cloud. This is the threshold point in time an application shifts automatically from one model of cloud to another, whenever the demand level changes. The costs arrived at the bust intervals need to manage by the licenses in hand by the application users of the cloud. If not the transparent mechanisms are always set by the hybrid autoscaling providers. Just a detailed understanding of cloud bursting is enough as a 3rd recipe for success with Cloud Ops.

Change management is the ultimate recipe for success with the following main points to consider. It is more of shifting the problem from internal to external to the cloud, in the same time regularizing your internal structures to the maximum. Here are a few:

1. Agile Development Internal team roles should also enhance the DevOps with an additional SRE role, with self-organized, cross-functional teams capable of also coding at the infrastructure level. This is true to the spirit of the agile manifesto.
2. Networking bandwidth increases, exposing application endpoints are the technical awareness and investment you have to take decisions ahead of time, 
3. Costs saved thus internally will be invested externally for the ease of use, just that the measures are available to monitor the cloud resource usage costs.,
4. Business continuity is guaranteed at the cost of transformation that brings with these changes as said above.

Conclusion

CloudOps is an integral part of an organization's reliability centers that are offering the teams flexibility to provide a range of management and operations functions to their customers such that internal teams focus on change management activities heavily.