She who controls the control plane
From the early days of AWS and the public cloud - it's all about owning the relationship to the control plane.
Enterprise IT is expansive. That’s an understatement. AWS has over 200 services alone. Add to that your on-premises Storage, Network, and Server infrastructure. Don’t forget your ERP, Payroll, Manufacturing, and Logistics platforms. In an ideal world, all of these systems integrate.
In theory, you could collect data across manufacturing facilities and your logistics network. First, that data is normalized and imported into your ERP. Next, a data scientist uses one of the data lake services in AWS to identify trends that help optimize the customer experience.
That’s theory. In practice, we are all searching for a control plane that helps orchestrate all of the complexity. It’s why platforms such as Kubernetes are so temping. It seems like every IT platform has some hook into K8s.
There’s a promise but we are far off from having a single control plane to rule them all. What have been some of the more interesting cross-platform control plane solutions you’ve encountered.