Longterm Expertise in building Cloud Foundations
Show don't Tell: A fast track to your Cloud Foundation
Ditch lengthy project plans. With our fixed-price showcase, you’ll be ready to go within 6 weeks. You will be able to:
- Provide self-service onboarding to your application teams
- Roll out and operate modular Landing Zones
- Manage and allocate costs transparently
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meshStack Showcase Timeline
Optimal Time Investment for Success
Our Showcase approach is a proven method providing guidance and direction of the configuration and adoption of meshStack, using reference architectures and best practices. This includes team collaboration during active working sessions focused on configuration, and adoption use cases.
Week 1
Configuration: Platforms
5 hours
Week 2
Compliance, Building Blocks, Chargeback
6 hours
Week 3-6
Evaluation
6 hours
Building and growing your Cloud Foundation can be a challenging undertaking. We will provide a structured approach to guide you through the challenges of building a scalable and secure cloud foundation in the meshPanel. We are excited to offer you an overview of your
Goal
All stakeholders understand what the Showcase is all about. All necessary meetings are scheduled.
Prerequisites
- No pre-requisites
Participants
- Enterprise Architect
- Platform Engineer
Agenda
- Introduction round
- Check cloud portal accessibility and first flow
- Define success for your Cloud Foundation
- Schedule meetings
- Next steps
Goal
You can order an AWS/azure/Google Cloud Account via meshStack UI or API.
Prerequisites
Technical prerequisites are listed on Github
Participants
- Enterprise Architect
- Platform Enginner
Agenda
- Integrate AWS/Azure/Google Cloud into meshStack
- Test the integration
Goal
You define an onboarding flow and tagging scheme that fits the requirements of your organization and provides transparency for all included stakeholders.
Prerequisites
You are able to log into meshStack.
Participants
- Enterprise Architect
- Platform Engineer
Agenda
Goal
You can order a building block as part of your Landing Zone.
Prerequisites
- You have set up a platform (like Azure, Google Cloud or AWS) in your meshStack.
- You have permissions to create a service account (like an Azure Service Principal, Google Cloud Service Account, etc.) that can be used for executing the building block module.
Alternative to using meshStack standard building blocks: You have an existing terraform module that you want to offer as a building block.
Participants
- Platform Engineer
- Enterprise Architect
Agenda
- Define a building block in meshStack
- Test the building block
Participants
- Platform Engineer
- Enterprise Architect
- Cost Specialist
An important step of the Showcase evaluation is to figure out how how your internal customers can use meshStack to request and manage resources in self-service. That’s why we recommend to schedule a session as part of the Showcase. The goal is to get feedback on what has been built during the Showcase.
Participants
- Product Owner of an Application Team
- Enterprise Architect
- Platform Engineer
- Cloud Foundation Team
The assessment aims to answer two questions.
- Where is our cloud foundation?
- What are the next steps for evolving the service offering to our customers?
The assessment is based on the publicly available Cloud Foundation Maturity Model (CFMM).
Agenda for the interactive workshop
- Understanding the Cloud Foundation Maturity Model
- Running the assessment
Participants
- Enterprise Architect
- Platform Engineer
- Cloud Foundation
- Customer Success Manager (meshcloud)
In the last session of the Showcase, we will review what we have achieved in the last 6 weeks.
If desired, we will outline both commercial and technical next steps for building up what we did in the Showcase.
Participants
- Enterprise Architect
- Platform Egineer
- Customer Success Manager Manager (meshcloud)
Create and access Cloud Environments with Ease
We’ll integrate up to 2 of your cloud platforms into meshStack to let you experience how easy it can be to provision new cloud environments.
- Don’t be afraid to loose control on your cloud landscape
- Manage the entire project lifecycle: Create, modify and delete projects
- Reduce your “time-to-cloud” to a couple of minutes
Roll out and operate your Cloud Landing Zones
Landing Zones are a core product of your Cloud Foundation. We’ll help you integrate your Landing Zones into meshStack and show you how to tailor them to meet your application’s needs.
- Meet your organization’s cloud needs with modular Landing Zones from cloud-native to cloud newbie
- Leverage standardized building blocks to manage the complexity of a scaling cloud landscape
- Support applications with value adding services like DevOps Toolchains and Starterkits
Manage your Cloud Costs and Budgets
FinOps is gaining more importance in a scaling cloud landscape. We’ll make sure you have the basics covered and will help you to automate FinOps processes for cost allocation and budget transparency.
Highlights
- Keep control on evergrowing cloud costs with multi-cloud budgets and flexible cost allocation
- Provide application teams with cost transparency and foster consciousness for their cloud spend
- Learn how to automate your cost allocation process to reduce administrative effort in cloud cost management
meshStack Showcase: Your 6-weeks ticket to Cloud Success
Our Showcase approach is a proven method providing guidance and direction of the configuration and adoption of meshStack, using reference architectures and best practices. This includes team collaboration during active working sessions focused on configuration, and adoption use cases.
Why should you choose a showcase with meshcloud?
Proven self-service solution
With meshStack, companies manage thousands of cloud projects every day – professionally and efficiently
Concrete implementation
Act instead of talk: Demonstrate a concrete working cloud foundation to drive decisions, address concerns and move your business forward
Know-how transfer
Workshops and customer success support ensure that you can subsequently operate and further develop your Cloud Foundation yourself. If required, we will also be at your side afterwards.
Cloud Foundation Community
Share experiences and learn from others in our regular community meetings.
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