In today’s multi-cloud world, we often find ourselves with multiple tools and processes for cloud operations, which makes it challenging to view infrastructure in a holistic way, or be efficient in day-to-day tasks. This second episode of The Multi-Cloud Expedition focuses on the fundamentals of cloud operations – cost, observability, and security. Through product demonstrations and conversations with VMware Subject Matter Experts, we’ll show how to get a complete picture of your cloud costs, observe, and troubleshoot issues with your infrastructure, and automate security for cloud-native applications.
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Chapter Segments:
0:00 – Start
0:27 – Recap and today’s focus – What is the Multi-Cloud Expedition, multi-cloud and ‘cloud chaos’?
https://www.vmware.com/multi-cloud.html
1:48 – SME intro: Rachna Srivastava, Director of Product Marketing, Tanzu Observability
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachnasri/
2:40 – The challenge: visibility to an environment with both cloud native and traditional applications plus siloed tools.
4:32 – Creation of IT center of excellence: combined team needing a holistic view for faster root cause.
5:22 – Siloed tools and being a swivel chair admin – how do you triangulate information?
6:02 – Product Demo – Aria Operations. An application is slow, where do you start to find the problem. Enter Aria Operations and its integration with Aria Operations for Applications.
https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html
https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations-for-applications.html
11:45 – Root Cause analysis no longer just viewing infrastructure but all areas without handoff delays.
13:12 – Product Demo – Aria Operations for Applications. Further investigation: Not a typical IT Ops issue so look to the application from the same tool.
https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations-for-applications.html
17:48 – What does good look like when setting up a center of excellence and getting a holistic view. MELT: Metrics, Events, Logs and Traces.
https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/unified-observability-the-role-of-metrics-logs-and-traces
20:12 – Capacity planning. Monitoring resource and cloud usage, even by K8s cluster, for management and visualization efficiencies.
23:01 – Cost – understanding not just total cloud costs but by components and application.
23:24 – SME intro: Lucas Paratore, Senior Product Line Manager Cloud Health
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasparatore/
24:27 – Developing costs and governance best practices with visibility and automation. Unit Economics.
26:10 – Financial as part of DevSecOps = FinOps. Understanding costs in context of how an application runs.
27:43 – Product Demo – Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth. Start understanding costs in a multi-cloud environment.
https://cloudhealth.vmware.com/products/cloudhealth.html
35:51 – Shifting left; having cost be a consideration earlier in the dev cycle as is happening with security.
38:02 – Creating Unit Economics with cloud costs through SaaS licenses, labor costs, etc.
40:00 – Show ROI improvements through unit or app cost reduction even when cloud costs increase.
41:21 – Product Demo – Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth. Fundamentals of security out of the box with Cloud Health.
https://cloudhealth.vmware.com/products/cloudhealth.html
43:22 – Everyone is responsible for security. More to come in future episodes!
44:38 – Q&A: Suggestions around costs of sandboxes or Dev and how tagging can help?
46:27 – Leveraging thresholds – The Aria Suite is VMware’s future for complete visibility and management.
https://www.vmware.com/products/aria.html
48:51 – Q&A: Does Aria Operations for Applications support open source?
50:06 – Q&A: As log sizes change daily how to understand the effect?
50:58 – Q&A: Why are customers starting to setup Cloud Economics teams?
52:37 – Wrap up. Look to the next episode for more around multi-cloud operations and especially security.
