Steps
Discovery
- Understand current infrastructure, review and discuss target infrastructure and requirements.
- Examine relevant architectures and use cases.
Design and plan
- Finalize the proposed architecture from the initial workshops.
- Provide a detailed design and implementation plan for network architecture, identity and access management, resource management, user and group provisioning, billing, monitoring, and security policies.
- All this is done in accordance with the best practices from Google and g-company.
Migration and deployment
Once the technical design and implementation plan are finished, the actual migration is executed:
- Setup of Google Cloud Platform environment (domain, groups, projects, network, resources).
- Live migration of the systems, using top-notch migration tools.
- Redeployment and configuration of systems (if necessary).
- Technical testing of the new cloud infrastructure.
- Functional user testing.
- Sunset legacy infrastructure.
Next steps
- During lift and shift, we identify and inventorize opportunities to fully benefit from public cloud infrastructure. This will help you become increasingly cloud native at the later “Improve” stage, while also reducing resource cost, and becoming more efficient.