ARCHITECTURE
REVIEW
Fully leverage the power of GCP and ensure your GCP Environment is set up to scale with efficiency and security
DEFINE A CLEAR PATH FORWARD
When you partner with Cloudwerx, we perform a full audit of your environment using a set of 178 GCP best practices. We’ll show you the GCP-specific products and services that can best support your growth and provide you with a roadmap that outlines the cost, timeline, and impact required to upgrade your GCP environment to support your future growth. GCP is a powerful and unique platform and as a partner, we'll be able to provide expertise specifically tailored to your GCP environment.
The goal of this project is to create a strategy that is unique to your company and define a clear path forward by providing expertise specifically tailored to your GCP environment.
LEVERAGE THE FULL POWER OF GCP
The goal of the Cloudwerx GCP Architecture Review is to ensure that you’re using the right product set and that your GCP environment is set up to run as efficiently and securely as possible by leveraging the full power of GCP.
Through the Architecture Review, we are able to provide you with...
Cloud Analytics Modernization
Understand the cost and impact of migrating workloads from your on-prem environment
Versatility in Application
Knowledge of GCP-specific products and applications that can best support your corporate growth plan
Data Science Acceleration
Gain awareness of the process, effort, and timeline required to update and follow GCP best practices
Full Customer Experience Service
Recognition of GCP’s unique value as a cloud partner through an architectural review and assessment
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The goal of the Cloudwerx GCP Architecture Review is to ensure that you’re using the right product set and that your GCP environment is set up to run as efficiently and securely as possible by leveraging the full power of GCP.
Through the Architecture Review, we are able to provide you with...
The goal of the Cloudwerx GCP Architecture Review is to ensure that you’re using the right product set and that your GCP environment is set up to run as efficiently and securely as possible by leveraging the full power of GCP.
Through the Architecture Review, we are able to provide you with...
Understanding of the cost and impact of migrating workloads from their on-prem environment
Gain awareness of the process, effort, and timeline required to update and follow GCP best practices
Knowledge of GCP-specific products and applications that can best support your corporate growth plan
Recognition of GCP’s unique value as a cloud partner through an architectural review and assessment
Review IAM Permissions
Follow principles of least privileges
Review Security Accounts
review the service accounts and usage and its keys
Review GKE Configuration
Comprehensively review GKEs configuration including the use the lack of workload identity. Control plane’s communication with worker nodes; private/public cluster
Review SSL Certs
Assess how SSL certs are generated
Inspect Load Balancers and it’s related security products
Review the use of Cloud Armor, Cloud CDN, DDOS protection, SQL injection attacks, Cross-sit Scripting
Review CloudSQL for its configuration
Review the DB configuration for security
Assess Adequate logging
Logging is necessary to trace and debug the problems. Assess id the required logging is enabled for various components.
Review VPCs/subnets
Review the usage of public IPs do compute. Analyze private VPC connection
Asses CI/CD pipelines
Review CI/CD’s usage or the lack of it
GCP REVIEW PROCESS
STEP
ONE
PERFORM TECHNICAL DISCOVERY ON CURRENT ENVIRONMENT
Perform technical discovery on current environment workloads
During this technical discovery, our engineers will evaluate your current architecture diagram and any existing GCP workloads. The goal of this technical discovery is for our engineering team to understand 3 main things:
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How is your GCP environment currently laid out?
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What are the current GCP products/services that you’re using?
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What application or business-specific requirements does your GCP environment need to support?
Hold a series of architecture planning and design workshop sessions
Meet and discuss with customer stakeholders to identify business and technical challenges and possible solutions.
Plan infrastructure requirements for in-scope workload(s)
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Discuss containerization strategy for any applicable workload(s)
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Identify requirements for automation, management and deployment strategies
We'll provide recommendations on subsequent toolchains.
Perform technical discovery on current environment workloads
Deliverables for this engagement include:
1. Up to 3 virtual technical discovery/architecture review planning and design workshop sessions facilitated by CloudWerx
2. Finalized Technical Design Document, including application and CI/CD pipeline reference architectures, recommended migration options, assessment of risk, and technical feasibility
3. Google Cloud pricing calculator with cost estimate (if necessary)
4. CloudWerx recommended next steps
Link back to Assessment as a part of the 3 steps in our Starter Kit