In order to implement a cloud strategy in a company, existing IT infrastructures and applications often have to be migrated systematically and well planned into the cloud environment. The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework provides a good basis to plan and realize such a journey. This folder contains various templates for visualisation, planning and decision-making which may be used to support this journey.
Note: The contents are mostly in German
One of the first steps is often the creation of an inventory of the existing applications. This is the basis to:
- define the scope for migrations
- define the target zone and the measures to reach it
- group workloads and plan phases
To systematically evaluate the measures to modernize or migrate single applications, a simple decision tree and according checklist may be helpful.
Note: Consider the integration of business responsibles into that process
In order to communicate the vision in a comprehensible way, it often helps to visualise the target status at different points in time (e.g. in 1, 2, 5 years) and to present the measures for this on a time axis.
In preparation for migrations, some general concepts often need to be established. These are typically:
- Management structures (subscriptions, roles and responsibilities)
- Network design and infrastructure, especially if a systematic connection to local networks or networks in other cloud environments is to be realised
- General security concepts
- General backup & disaster recovery concepts
