Month 18: Multi-cloud Strategies and Management

Week 1: Multi-Cloud Benefits and Challenges

Day 1: Introduction to multi-cloud strategies and their importance

Day 2: Benefits of multi-cloud deployments

Day 3: Challenges and risks associated with multi-cloud strategies

Day 4: Assessing the need for a multi-cloud strategy

Day 5: Hands-on activity: Evaluating multi-cloud suitability for a given scenario

Week 2: Multi-Cloud Deployment Patterns

Day 1: Understanding multi-cloud deployment patterns

Day 2: Cloud arbitrage and broker-based deployments

Day 3: Cloud-of-clouds and multi-cloud management platforms

Day 4: Case study: Analyzing multi-cloud deployment patterns for different scenarios

Day 5: Hands-on activity: Implementing a multi-cloud deployment pattern for a sample application

Week 3: Cross-Cloud Governance and Security

Day 1: Governance challenges in multi-cloud environments

Day 2: Consistent policy enforcement across clouds

Day 3: Cross-cloud security and compliance management

Day 4: Identity and access management in multi-cloud environments

Day 5: Hands-on activity: Implementing cross-cloud governance and security for a sample application

Week 4: Cross-Cloud Data Management and Networking

Day 1: Data management challenges in multi-cloud environments

Day 2: Cross-cloud data integration and synchronization

Day 3: Networking challenges and solutions in multi-cloud environments

Day 4: Hybrid connectivity and cloud-to-cloud networking

Day 5: Hands-on activity: Implementing cross-cloud data management and networking for a sample application

Week 5: Multi-Cloud Management Tools

Day 1: Introduction to multi-cloud management tools

Day 2: Overview of CloudBolt, Scalr, and Morpheus

Day 3: Comparing multi-cloud management tools: features and use cases

Day 4: Hands-on activity: Working with a multi-cloud management tool for a sample application