Multi-Cloud Adoption Challenges for the Cloud-Native Era: Best Practices and Solution Approaches

With the ready availability of appropriate technologies and tools for crafting hybrid clouds, the move towards employing multiple clouds for hosting and running various business workloads is garnering subtle attention. The concept of cloud-native computing is gaining prominence with the faster proliferation of microservices and containers. The faster stability and maturity of container orchestration platforms also greatly contribute towards the cloud-native era. This paper guarantees the following contributions: 1) It describes the key motivations for multi-cloud concept and implementations. 2) It also highlights various key drivers of the multi-cloud paradigm. 3) It presents a brew of challenges that are likely to occur while setting up multi-cloud. 4) It elaborates the proven and potential solution approaches to solve the challenges. The technology-inspired and tool-enabled solution approaches significantly simplify and speed up the adoption of the fast-emerging and evolving multi-cloud concept in the cloud-native era.