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Anything can be put on the cloud, but especially with large enterprises where millions of dollars and legacy complexity is involved use this checklist,
| Question | Why Do You Care? | What Do You Lose? | What Can you Do? |
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| Can you achieve consistency across environments IST, UAT and Production? | |||
| Can the design be zero footprint? | |||
| Are the applications clone-able without impact? | |||
| Do you have a single chocking point? For example, the application relies on 1 giant legacy database or some host systems? | So what if your web applications can scale during busy periods. You still choke at your database. And scaling may actually reduce performance with too many connections to the database. |
You do not have to be able to say yes to everything. However, it changes the nature of your design.
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- Developers can not suddenly become DevOps.
- You need OpsDev viewpoint as much as DevOps.
- Management and budget are different.
- To write up here... what kind of talent we need and key challenges we've seen.
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Have the cloud "smoke test" up front before the project starts. These are also great questions for executive management to ask to really understand the value of moving to Cloud,
| Question | Cloud Advantage | Value Commentary |
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| Demonstrate environment can be torn down and built up within minutes from recipe. | ||
| See the environment be torn down and built up in different environments, IST, UAT and Production? | ||
| Show the environment scales up and down? | ||
Path to Cloud
Here is high level path and approach to Cloud taking the Bonsai Framework approach.
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