Cloud Operation Automation

Every day, we have new cloud vendors are pitching into business of Cloud. Providing more choices to Cloud Consumers but at same time making them confuse which Cloud is best suitable for them. Many time, Customer land up choosing or living in multiple clouds. This pose a challenge for customer to mange these effectively.

With cloud maturity, we need to divide Cloud operations into three separate elements and need to automate them individually to bring best clarity of separation.

Elements of Cloud	Operations	Automation
Infrastructure	Manage Infrastructure Capacity Planning/Procurement/Setup/Replacement/Retirement  Maintaining SLA for Infra	Developing common interfaces for different IaaS cloud
Services	Managing Service Catalog Integration/Collaboration/Administration Managing SLA for Services	Developing integration systems between IaaS and PaaS Cloud.
Application	Managing App Migration/Development/Administration Managing SLA for Applications	Developing common development methodology across different PaaS and SaaS Cloud.

This gives us new terminology to play with:

• IOaaS > InfraOps
• SOaaS > ServiceOps
• AOaaS > AppOps 

To manage IOaaS, InfraOps has the responsibility to serve only 

• Cloud interoperability
• Play of Service Providers