Driving Cloud Adoption through Design for Portability
While many organizations are over their real and perceived concerns about the risks of leveraging the public cloud, hesitation to implement a cloud strategy still remains. The emerging concerns around which hyper-scaler to choose, and once chosen, fears that vendor lock-in, and the resulting price-escalations, still run amok in the corporate world and hinder cloud adoption.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to move applications to your favorite hyper-scaler (we all have our own) and do it in a way to avoid the potential downside of vendor lock-in? Leveraging containers, such as Docker, can be an opportunity to do just that. Applying a design for portability mind-set to your application development architecture can enable you to try the cloud, any cloud, while having the flexibility to move it later, if your needs or preferences change. When properly implemented, a containerization strategy not only provides these safeguards for future-forward flexibility, it also gives you the other benefits from leveraging containers, such as more optimized and efficient utilization of cloud resources, ultimately saving you money.
Why not give it a try?
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this post are mine only and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
Technology Strategist, Digital Transformation Adviser, Enterprise & Solution Architect
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