Making fast and accurate technology decisions is critical to staying relevant to your customers. And technology needs to add value back to your organization quicker than ever. Google Cloud offers IT leaders the answer to today''s technology challenges. However, to realize its benefits you must navigate your journey without hitting common pitfalls that lead to stalled and unsuccessful cloud adoption.
This book distills the lessons learned from guiding and working with hundreds of organizations on their journey to the cloud. Its goal is to give aspiring and current IT leaders the knowledge required to be an infrastructure leader. That is the term author Jeremy Lloyd uses for the person who can lead your organization''s Google Cloud adoption strategy.
Of course, cloud adoption isn''t a solo endeavor. Jeremy covers the different generations of IT leaders, the team structure, and the skills required for a successful migration to Google Cloud. This book also covers why yo
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter Goal: Introduce a concept that there are essentially four types of infrastructure leaders as I know them. Let them build a relationship with one of the four which provides them with a lens upon which to view the current state and the path to progress forwards with GCP. Then inform them of the role that an infrastructure leader plays in a GCP adoption and migration strategy. Lay out the challenges they will face adopting GCP/Cloud. Provide guidance on a fundamental shift from a cost centre to a profit centre.
No of pages - 12
Sub-Topics1. What does an Infrastructure Leader do? Or Who is an Infrastructure Leader?2. Type of Infrastructure Leaders3. Challenges4. Becoming a profit centre
Chapter 2: About Google & Google Cloud
Chapter Goal: Take the reader on a short journey of the history of Google and bring out the narrative around their values and principles and empower them to lead innovation across every sector they touch. Then bring out the core value proposition of Google Cloud itself, underpinned by evidence to backup
No of pages - 28
Sub - Topics1. Google short history2. Introducing Google Cloud Platform3. Google Cloud Platform core components4. Why use Google Cloud Platform
Chapter 3: Future of IT
Chapter Goal: Orient the reader into understanding that their current state has to change. Back up the messaging with trends and data points they can’t refute.
No of pages - 3
Sub - Topics
Chapter 4: The Four Stages Of Google Cloud Platform Adoption
Chapter Goal: Label and define the four states of GCP/Cloud adoption. Let the reader understand how and where any experience they currently have sits. Help them understand the considerations to going with one strategy over the others.
No of pages - 7
Sub - Topics1. Shadow IT2. Tactical Adoption3. Strategic Adoption4. Organisation Transformation
Chapter 5: Business Case
Chapter Goal: Arm the reader with the information they need to write a rapid or detailed business case to justify adoption and migration to GCP. The aim is to make is simple for them to get the right story that will resonate with their organisation.
No of pages - 6
Sub - Topics1. Rapid Business Case2. Detailed Business Case3. Integrating with an existing business case template
Chapter 6: The Cloud Strategy
Chapter Goal: Show them the importance of having a well-defined cloud strategy. Then give them almost a blueprint upon which to follow in how to create one.
No of pages - 10
Sub - Topics1. Version 2. Executive Summary3. Current State4. Financial Models5. Alignment to business strategy6. Guiding Principles7. Security8. Compliance9. Risk Management10. Governance11. Ways of Working12. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)13. Implementation Plan
Chapter 7: Cloud Operating Model
Chapter Goal: With a defined cloud strategy you need the next layer which is to define what your cloud operating model is. This chapter aims to inform what to consider and how their operating model could look and how to ensure it can evolve as the organisation matures with GCP.
No of pages - 6
Sub - Topics
Chapter 8: Migration Strategies
Chapter Goal: Inform the reader of the industry used migration approaches and Google Cloud’s take on them.
No of pages - 3-5
Sub - Topics1. Migration Objectives2. Migration Risk management3. Googlers & Office of the CTO4. Partner Ecosystem5. Actions
Chapter 9: Modernisation Strategies
Chapter Goal: Inform the reader about modernisation strategies, Google’s tools and some simple methods to help them quickly decide what to modernise.
No of pages - 10
Sub - Topics1. Modernisation guardrails2. Modernisation roadmap3. Mainframe Modernisation4. Migration Decision Tree5. Actions
Chapter 10: Organisational Readiness
Chapter Goal: Provide the reader with the considerations across key areas that will help them be prepared for cloud adoption/migration.
No of pages - 34
Sub - Topics1. Paving the roads for cultural change2. Google Cloud Adoption Framework3. Managing The Hype-cycle4. Skillset5. Cloud Adoption Teams (CMO, CCoE etc)6. Building a Cloud Center of Excellence 7. Security Readiness8. Governance Readiness9. Operations Readiness
Chapter 11: Migration & Modernisation Team Structures
Chapter Goal: Get the reader to understand the people, skills and ways of working that GCP migration and modernisation requires
No of pages - 2
Sub - Topics
Chapter 12: Migrations
Chapter Goal: Provide guidance across migration assessment, planning and execution. Inform them what good first mover workloads look like.
No of pages - 20-22
Sub - Topics1. Introducing The Migration Journey2. Assess3. Plan4. Migrate5. Optimise
Chapter 13: Cloud-Native Development
Chapter Goal: The infrastructure leader won’t be responsible for cloud-native development but they can/should play a key role in it’s facilitation. It showcases the considerations across new areas that the infrastructure team should be focusing on.
No of pages - 20
Sub - Topics1. Cloud-Native Advantages2. Containers3. Integrated Development Environment4. Serverless5. BeyondProd
Chapter 14 : Day 2 Operations
Chapter Goal: Introduce the concept of Day 2 Operations to the reader. Then give them guidance around what the infrastructure team should be thinking about across each of the sub-topics, all staying within a day 2 operations context.
No of pages - 60
Sub - Topics1. Day 2 Cloud Challenges2. Cloud Foundations3. Landing Zones 4. Compute5. Monitoring, Logging And Alerting6. Availability7. Reliability8. Recoverability9. Financial Operations10. Performance11. Security12. Automation13. Governance and Compliance14. Cloud Marketplace15. GCP Managed Services16. Containers17. Data Analytics18. Open Source19. Support20. Day 2 antipatterns21. DevOps/SRE/CRE
Chapter 15: Productivity and Collaboration
Chapter Goal: Introduce a Google concept of BeyondCorp and how that ties in with a GCP migration strategy. Introduce Google Workspace and benefits of using it.
No of pages - 8
Sub - Topics1. BeyondCorp2. Google Workspace
