The Challenges of Enterprise-Scale Hybrid and Multi-cloud Architectures

The innovation of technology solutions available to enterprise-scale organizations continues to grow exponentially and at an astonishing pace. While adopting new technology is a vital strategy for profitability and growth, it also creates significant hurdles with transitions between product stacks, integration with existing solutions, and the critical need to observe and control the entire information technology [IT] estate of an organization. This book aims to investigate what the author believes to be the most comprehensive control plane for IT systems governance available on the market today, Azure Arc. It will cover the product’s capabilities across management of database systems, Kubernetes, governance and policy, security, and its contributions to industry best practices such as DevOps. While focusing on Arc, some comparisons will be made to other products that have similar objectives. Finally, it will offer some historical context as to how the platforms impacted by Arc developed and what fostered the need for a product like Arc.