As digital transformation accelerates, organizations are turning to hybrid and multi-cloud platforms for their agility, scalability, and flexibility. To effectively manage and optimize these complex environments, Microsoft’s Azure Arc has emerged as a powerful solution. However, the successful adoption of Azure Arc largely depends on implementing robust cloud quality engineering (QE) practices.
The Infosys Cloud Quality Engineering approach is designed to validate critical integration and ensure comprehensive testing of Azure Arc deployments. Our approach spans infrastructure, functionality, data, middleware, and critical non-functional requirements, such as performance, security, and compliance. Addressing these areas proactively mitigates cloud adoption risks, enabling seamless system operations across complex multi-cloud environments.
This blog explains how combining Infosys Cloud Quality Engineering with Azure Arc enables scalable, reliable, and efficient multi-cloud environments.
Multi-cloud Management with Azure Arc
Azure Arc is a cutting-edge Microsoft offering that simplifies the management of diverse, distributed infrastructure, including on-premises data centers, edge locations, external clouds, and non-Azure environments. Azure Arc provides a unified control plane, represented in Figure 1, to manage deployed resources while enforcing security and compliance across platforms such as Windows, Linux, SQL Server, and Kubernetes.
Fig 1: Extending Azure management to any infrastructure
Leveraging Infosys Cloud Quality Engineering for Robust Azure Arc Services
Infosys Cloud Quality Engineering validates the intricate integrations powered by Azure Arc and efficiently manages the underlying infrastructure. Our thorough approach addresses key requirements necessary to build a reliable, high-performing hybrid and multi-cloud environment, including:
- Polycloud environment: Ensuring efficient operations across diverse cloud platforms
- Resource consistency management: Enabling resource management and configuration, regardless of location
- Policy and security enforcement: Testing environment compliance with policies, access controls, and security standards
- Seamless integration: Facilitating smooth interoperability with existing on-premises and cloud infrastructure
Infosys Cloud Quality Engineering Testing Practices
With robust Infosys Cloud Quality Engineering practices, businesses can efficiently handle hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. They can achieve optimal performance, strong security, and strict compliance across platforms. Our comprehensive testing approach includes:
Resource connectivity verification:
- Ensuring Azure Arc-enabled resources, Kubernetes clusters, and database servers are onboarded and visible in the Azure portal
- Confirming that on-premises servers are available under Azure Arc-enabled servers
- Verifying that Kubernetes clusters and database servers are listed as connected resources
- Validating resources using the Azure command-line interface (CLI) or PowerShell commands
Security and compliance validation:
- Confirming that on-premises servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases comply with the Azure security policy.
Network connectivity and latency testing:
- Testing network performance across on-premises, edge devices, and Azure resources for minimal latency during key Azure Arc management operations
Unlocking Tangible Value with Infosys Cloud Quality Engineering
Integrating Infosys Cloud Quality Engineering practices with Azure Arc substantially enhances the quality, agility, and resilience of cloud-native application development, deployment, and operations. Key benefits include:
- Unified management and guaranteed application readiness: Drives seamless integrations across hybrid environments, to achieve application readiness for end-users and alignment with organizational goals
- End-to-end quality and DevOps integration: Integrates quality assurance with DevOps to streamline workflows and reduce application maintenance costs
- Proactive defect prevention through a shift-left approach: Detects and resolves defects early in the development lifecycle, boosting quality and productivity
- Accelerated time to market and enhanced customer trust: Fast-tracks customer onboarding through rigorous testing, building trust through top-quality product delivery
Conclusion
Infosys Cloud Quality Engineering provides a robust framework for validating critical Azure integrations across on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments, making them highly reliable and resilient. Our tightly coupled service interactions promote consolidated management while enhancing control, flexibility, and scalability for Azure Arc deployments.
Partnering with us streamlines operations, mitigates latency risks, and supports smooth infrastructure modernization and flawless Azure transitions. Leveraging our comprehensive QE approach for secure Azure Arc integration is key to optimized hybrid and multi-cloud management.
