The document discusses challenges of moving to a multicloud environment and Cisco's solutions to address these challenges. It describes Cisco's multicloud portfolio including CloudCenter for managing applications and workloads across public and private clouds, Cisco Container Platform for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters, and hybrid solutions that integrate Cisco technologies with public clouds like AWS and Google Cloud to provide a consistent environment. The document argues that Cisco's multicloud solutions allow IT to securely design, deploy, and optimize applications on any cloud.

1. Miguel A. Figueroa
Software Architect, Customer Experience Cloud and Automation
Deploy and Manage Kubernetes
Clusters in a Multicloud World
April 30, 2019

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What is Multicloud?
A multicloud approach enables
customers to consume applications
and services from two or more clouds
where at least one cloud is public.
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Challenges to Move to Cloud
Plan/ Execute Cloud-first
Strategy
Implement/ Adopt Cloud
Technologies
Security & Compliance
Requirements
Multivendor Services, Tools &
Technologies
Expertise & Skill-Set
Requirements
Post-Implementation Support
& Management

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Top Customer Cloud use cases
Adopting
public cloud
Evolving
on-premises
environment
Secure Multicloud
Networking
Implement
HA / DR
Deploy and manage
cloud applications
Develop
Applications
on/with the Cloud
Cloud Governance
IT as a Service
Consistent Network
Policy

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Cloud
Advisory
Cloud Migration
Cloud Connect
Cloud Protect
Cloud Consume
Cloud
Connect
vEdge with Umbrella
CSR 1000v
Meraki vMX
Cloud
Protect
Umbrella
AMP for Endpoints
Meraki Systems
Manager
Cloudlock
Tetration SaaS
Stealthwatch Cloud
Cloud
Consume
CloudCenter
AppDynamics
Cisco Container
Platform
Public Cloud
• Amazon Web Services
• Google Cloud Platform
• Microsoft Azure
• ACI
• Nexus
• HyperFlex
• UCS
Cisco Cloud
Infrastructure
• On Premises
• Colocation
• Cisco DNA
• ASA/NGFW
• Intersight
• CWOM
Multicloud Portfolio

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CloudCenter Suite
End to End Lifecycle
New and Existing
Applications
Container
as Service
Public
Cloud
Data
Center
Private
Cloud
Multicloud management platform securely design, deploy, and optimize anywhere
One Integrated
Platform

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CloudCenter Suite
What’s new
Workload Manager
Provides existing
CloudCenter functionality
CostOptimizer
Provides public and private cloud
cost visibility and optimization
ActionOrchestrator
Enables workflow process
orchestration and automation
SuiteAdmin
Administers modules, manages tenancy,
licensing, logging, RBAC, monitoring, authentication
Modular, microservices architecture

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Cisco Container Platform Stack
Control Plane Data Plane
VM VM VM
Control Plane Kubernetes
Automation
Orchestration
Operations
HX Connect Cluster/
Machine
Controllers
VM VM VM
Cluster 1 Kubernetes
Cluster
1
Workloads
Cluster
1
Ops
Pod
Pod
Pod
VM VM VM
Cluster 2 Kubernetes
Cluster
2
Workloads
Cluster
2
Ops
Pod
Pod
Pod
Kubernetes Fluentd Prometheus Kibana Hyperflex Contiv
Storage (Hyperflex)
Networking (e.g. Nexus 9K or other)
Compute Hardware (UCS)
Hypervisor Layer (HyperFlex/VMW)
VM

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On-premises
environment
Cisco Nexus9K / ACI
Cisco HyperFlex / UCS
VPC
EC2 / EBS
Elastic Container Registry
Identity and Access
Management (IAM)
Cisco CloudCenter
Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud
AppDynamics
Optional Mandatory
Cisco CSR1000v
Cisco Container
Platform
Amazon EKS
Legend:
Consistent, production-grade
environment
Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes on AWS

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Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud
On-premises
environment
Google
Kubernetes Engine
Existing
services
apps | data
Cisco HyperFlex
Cisco Nexus9K / ACI
Cisco CSR1000v
Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud
Cisco Container
Platform
Consistent environment
Google Apigee
Cisco CloudCenter
Istio
BigQuery
Cloud SQL
Pub/Sub
Big Table
Cloud Storage
Cloud Spanner
Open Service Broker

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CloudCenter Suite
Umbrella
Cisco Container Platform (CCP)
AppDynamics
CWOM/Turbonomic
Tetration
CSR 1000v
Stealthwatch Cloud
AMP4E
Intersight
Kubernetes VMware
ACI UCS
Private Cloud
Multicloud
Portfolio
CloudCenter Suite
Cisco Container Platform (CCP)
AppDynamics
CSR 1000v
Stealthwatch Cloud
Kubernetes VMware
ACI UCS CCP
Private Cloud
Istio
CHCP for
Google Cloud
CloudCenter Suite
Cisco Container Platform (CCP)
AppDynamics
CSR 1000v
SAP Hub Data
Kubernetes VMware
UCS
SAP Hub Data
CHCP for
SAP
Datahub
Prime Service Catalog
Action Orchestrator
CloudCenter Suite
Cisco Container Platform (CCP)
AppDynamics
CSR 1000v
Stealthwatch Cloud
Kubernetes VMware
ACI UCS
Private Cloud
Hybrid Solution
for Kubernetes
on AWS
IAM
AmazonEKS
Elastic Container Registry
EC2 / EBS
VPC
Multicloud Solutions – How to get
Started
Private Cloud
ACI

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