Summary

In the cloud, it's very easy to get started straight away, but that's not a sustainable way of working for enterprises. In this chapter, we've learned that, in multi-cloud, we have to work according to a well-thought and designed architecture. This starts with creating an architecture vision and setting principles for the different domains such as data, applications, and the underlying infrastructure. Quality attributes are a great help in setting up the architecture.

With these quality attributes, we have explored topics that make architecture for cloud environments very specific in terms of availability, scalability, discoverability, configurability, and operability. If we have designed the architecture, we have to manage it. If we work under the architecture, we need to be strict in terms of change management. Finally, it's good practice to have our architectural work validated by peers and experts from different providers.

With this, we have learned how...