Managing Multi-Cloud Deployments on Kubernetes with Istio, Prometheus and Grafana

Abstract

Today, Cloud-native is changing the way applications are constructed and being deployed. Traditionally, application development followed a waterfall and monolithic approach. Whereas cloud-native follows a microservices and agile approach. This cloud-native approach has many advantages over traditional approaches. However, relying on a single cloud vendor will create a number of issues like single-vendor dependency, the problem of reliability and availability, as no single cloud service provider has the best tools for everything. To remove this single-vendor dependency, Cloud-Architects use a multi-cloud environment. Multi-cloud refers to the use of many cloud providers and services in a single cloud network infrastructure. Multi-cloud environments are used to gain all benefits from different vendors like distribute computing resources, minimum downtime and high data availability. Organizations are using multi-cloud to increase their computing power and services availability for a business. In recent years, cloud service advances have led to a shift from private clouds to multi-tenant clouds and hybrid clouds. This multi-cloud will be a mixed environment that will take advantage of many infrastructure environments, such as private and public clouds.