Achieving Infrastructure Agility with Cloud Control’s AppZ
Using the Cloud always means agility and adding business value. In the cloud computing context, agility often refers to the ability to rapidly develop, test, and launch software applications that drive business growth. Cloud agility allows us to focus on other issues such as security, monitoring, and analysis, instead of provisioning and maintaining the resources.
There are some obvious factors that businesses always take into account when adding cloud services to their infrastructure, such as cost, performance, security, and reliability.
More and more often, however, IT leaders are looking towards cloud scalability, elasticity, and agility to really bolster their computing capabilities and stay ahead of the competition. Realistically, moving a data center to the cloud is challenging. IT leaders are faced with aging data centers which must be adapted to new technology over time, so they require flexible infrastructure options.
Creating an agile infrastructure team to support both legacy modernization and cloud-native applications requires a new way to look at traditional ways of deploying production-ready software and control systems.
AppZ
There is a revolution in Application development with the widespread adoption of Open Source components. AppZ makes it possible to automate and control any part of the Application SDLC that can be software-defined at the App, Compute, Storage, and Network layer.
With AppZ, it’s easy to simplify your cloud migration and digital transformation. AppZ enables a true GitOps model, where application/infrastructure changes are traceable to Source Control Systems with user details, reasons for the changes, and timestamps. The AppZ platform enforces separation of duties between Application Developers and DevOps/Infrastructure Admins. AppZ also helps clients implement cloud migration strategies effectively.
With its application-centric focus, AppZ Control Plane offers a single pane of glass view for deployed applications across the entire Data Center(s) running as Private, Hybrid, or Multi-Cloud platforms.
AppZ already shows that it’s possible for existing Infrastructure and Development teams to deploy high-performing, resilient, and lower-cost applications in a single click, without any downtime. With AppZ, organizations can digitally transform and successfully manage tough application capabilities supporting any cloud provider of your choice — without having to acquire expensive and scarce resources.
AppZ Advantages
With cloud automation, an organization eliminates repetitive and manual processes for workload deployment and management. Since all manual steps and intervention are eliminated, teams can achieve immutable releases with zero downtime. Here are some key benefits of infrastructure automation:
Reduced Costs: Infrastructure automation eliminates the need for large teams to perform a lot of manual steps to get started with product development. For organizations that have large teams and complex infrastructures, the savings could be extensive and the improvement in quality substantial.
More Efficient Workflows: Through automation of a variety of IT provisioning tasks with great efficiency and accuracy, infrastructure automation lays the foundation for more efficient workflows. Teams can set the conditions to provision infrastructure and ensure they are executed only when the right condition is met.
Faster Delivery: Infrastructure automation automates the process of IT provisioning, greatly reducing the time and effort needed to set up the underlying infrastructure. Teams can start building products sooner, bring them to market faster, outpace the competition, and meet customer demands effectively.
Minimal Errors: Infrastructure automation greatly reduces the error rate associated with manual provisioning of servers. Since all the necessary infrastructure gets provisioned automatically, it minimizes the chances of errors and reduces business impact.
The important tools that AppZ uses for achieving CI/CD pipelining on hybrid cloud are:
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Summary
With AppZ, you can achieve application deployment within minutes with no downtime. AppZ provides all the information for running the applications in a single dashboard, including logs, metrics, and monitoring capabilities.
AppZ stacks will reduce your cost of migration from legacy systems to any cloud while leveraging your current infrastructure.
- AppZ reduces 50-70% in migration cost using industry-first migration templates and 30% lower TCO post-migration.
- AppZ can migrate in days/weeks, not months/years! Do it right the first time.
- AppZ can integrate vulnerability scanning across software and configuration systems.
- AppZ maximizes security with Zero privileged access and automatic patching.
How AppZ Differs from Others
- We have a team with many years of experience in the cloud migration domain.
- We have pre-fabricated, proven, and highly secure cloud migration templates.
- We’re the inventors of a patented cloud solution, which shows our expertise and quality.
And hence, we can conclude that AppZ lowers the barrier to the entry of Cloud Computing and thereby achieves infrastructure agility, reduces cost, and minimizes risk.
About The Author
SREEDEVI J S
Cloud DevOps Engineer | Cloud Control
Cloud DevOps Engineer with more than three years of experience in supporting, automating, and optimizing deployments to hybrid cloud platforms using DevOps processes, tools, CI/CD, containers, and Kubernetes in both Production and Development environments.