Enhancing Multi-Cloud Management for Cloudyn

Highlights

Cloudyn, a leader in cloud management, needed to extend its platform to integrate with new cloud providers like Microsoft Azure and OpenStack.

Academy SMART worked closely with Cloudyn’s development team to extend the framework, integrate APIs, and implement a budget management feature for enhanced cloud spending control.

The solution improved Cloudyn’s multi-cloud management capabilities, supported more efficient resource usage, and helped optimize cloud spending across various platforms.

Cloudyn provided comprehensive cloud monitoring and management tools, allowing businesses to optimize their cloud usage across multiple platforms. As a Microsoft partner, Cloudyn supported cost management for Microsoft Azure and other public clouds, helping companies improve efficiency and reduce cloud costs.

Employees: 100+

Industry: Cloud Computing

Sector: Multi-Cloud Management

Primary Objectives

Extend Platform Capabilities:

Cloudyn aimed to expand its platform to support new cloud providers, including Microsoft Azure and OpenStack, allowing customers to manage and optimize their multi-cloud environments efficiently.
Enhance Budget Management Features:

Customers needed the ability to create and manage yearly and monthly budgets across various cloud providers, gaining better control over their cloud spending. Cloudyn sought to offer advanced budget management tools as part of their platform.
Improve Data Unification and API Integration:

Cloudyn needed to ensure that the data from different cloud providers was unified and consistent, requiring modifications to their existing database structure. Additionally, seamless API integration with new cloud systems was a critical requirement.

Challenge

As Cloudyn expanded its customer base, the platform faced several challenges:

Expanding Cloud Integration Beyond Amazon:

Cloudyn initially supported only Amazon’s API system. Expanding the platform to integrate with other cloud providers like Microsoft Azure and OpenStack was a challenge, requiring substantial modifications to the existing framework and API handling.

Managing Disparate Data Structures Across Platforms:

The data structures from Azure and OpenStack were significantly different from Amazon’s, making it difficult to unify data across cloud systems. Modifying the database structure to ensure consistency and compatibility was a crucial challenge that needed to be addressed to deliver a seamless multi-cloud experience.

Introducing Robust Budget Management Tools:

Cloudyn customers required advanced budgeting tools to manage cloud spending across multiple platforms. Developing features to create and track yearly and monthly budgets, while ensuring they integrated smoothly with existing platform functionalities, was essential to meet customer demands.

Maintaining Reliability and Performance During Expansion:

As Cloudyn expanded its platform, it had to ensure that the added functionalities did not compromise the platform’s performance or reliability. Achieving this required rigorous testing, ensuring the system remained efficient and scalable even with the addition of new features and integrations.

How Academy SMART Helped

Academy SMART approached Cloudyn’s challenge with a comprehensive strategy that involved framework extension, API integration, and database optimization.

Framework Extension and API Integration:

Actions Taken: Academy SMART extended the existing framework to support integration with Microsoft Azure and OpenStack, in addition to the original Amazon API. The team developed new modules using Spring, Spring Data, and third-party libraries to ensure seamless API integration across multiple cloud

Impact: The extended framework allowed Cloudyn to expand its offerings, supporting customers using various cloud providers, including private clouds.

Data Unification and Database Structure Modification:

Actions Taken: We modified Cloudyn’s database structure to unify the data collected from different cloud systems. This ensured consistency and compatibility across the platform, allowing users to manage data from multiple sources

Impact: The data unification effort improved the accuracy and efficiency of the platform, providing customers with a more cohesive and reliable multi-cloud management experience.

Budget Management Feature:

Actions Taken: Academy SMART implemented a budget management feature that enabled customers to create and manage yearly and monthly budgets. This provided customers with better control over their cloud spending and helped them optimize resource allocation across different cloud platforms.

Impact: The new feature empowered customers to monitor and manage their cloud costs more effectively, improving financial transparency and control.

Testing and Quality Assurance:

Actions Taken: The solution underwent rigorous unit and integration testing, achieving approximately 80% code coverage. This ensured the reliability, stability, and performance of the system.

Impact: Thorough testing guaranteed that the enhanced framework operated smoothly, minimizing downtime and issues during platform use.

Business Impact

Working with Academy SMART, Cloudyn achieved the following:

Expanded Cloud Integration:

Cloudyn’s platform now supports integration with Amazon, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, and private clouds. This expanded capability allowed Cloudyn to serve a wider range of customers, increasing its market appeal and value.
Improved Cloud Spending Management:

The addition of budget management tools allowed customers to monitor and control their cloud spending more effectively, ensuring optimized resource usage and cost savings across multiple cloud platforms.
Enhanced Data Consistency:

Modifying the database structure to unify data across different cloud systems improved the platform’s consistency and reliability. Customers now benefit from a seamless multi-cloud management experience.
Increased Operational Efficiency:

The extended framework and robust API integration enabled Cloudyn to improve platform performance and scalability, setting the stage for continued growth and innovation.

Summary

Technologies

Spring

Spring Data

Amazon API

Azure API

OpenStack API

Services

API Integration

DevOps

Back-end Development

Quality Assurance

Unit and Integration Testing

Team

Back-end Engineers

DevOps

AQAs

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Expanding Multi-Cloud Management and Optimization Capabilities for Cloudyn