What is cloud orchestration?

The automation of applications, workloads, infrastructure, and supporting resources across one or more public and/or private cloud platforms is known as cloud orchestration. Typically, it uses declarative and/or imperative techniques to promote automation.

Cloud computing is becoming more flexible thanks to microservices and containerization, but they also bring with them new complexity that can be challenging to handle. It can be difficult for organizations to synchronize operations plus business processes, minimize provisioning errors, and control resource sprawl since hybrid clouds are composed of so many distinct components, ranging from on-prem datacenters to edge locations.  

Cloud environments now require automation to function, because the number of complex tasks involved in their upkeep would be nearly impossible to perform without it.

By incorporating automation into workflows across multicloud and hybrid cloud environments, administrators may improve the efficiency and reliability of cloud computing systems and make them easier to maintain over time.

For example, an organization that develops its own applications can focus on cloud orchestration techniques that facilitate DevOps processes and the integration of pipelines for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).