Cloud Adoption Framework Introduction (CAF)
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More and more organizations are moving to the cloud. In order to do this succesful, we can use the Cloud Adoption Framework which is described by Microsoft.
The framework is a succesful order of processes and guidelines which companys can use to increase the success of adopting the cloud. The framework is described in the diagram below:
The CAF has the following steps:
- Strategy: Define the project, define what you want to achieve and define the business outcomes.
- Plan: Plan your migration, determine the plans and make sure the environment readiness is at a good level.
- Ready (and migrate): Prepare your new cloud environment for planned changes and migrate your workloads to the cloud.
- Optimize: After migrating to the cloud, optimize your environment by using the beste solutions possible and innovate at this level.
- Secure: Improve the security of your workloads and plan your perodical security checks.
- Manage: Manage operations for cloud and hybrid solutions.
- Govern: Govern your environment and its workloads.
Intention of use
- Increase the chance of your cloud success
- Gives you a best practice of how to perform the migration by proven methodology
- Ensures you don’t miss a crucial step
Intended users/audience
- IT Decision makers
- Company Management Teams
- Companies who want to profit from cloud solutions
- Companies that are planning to migrate to the cloud
- Technicians and project managers for planning the migration
For more information, check out this page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/
Summary
This framework (CAF) can be very useful if your organization decides to migrate to the cloud. It contains a variety of steps and processes from earlier migrations done by companies and their faults.
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