Cloud Operations (CloudOps) is the practice of managing delivery, tuning, optimization, and performance of workloads and IT services that run in a cloud environment including multi, hybrid, in the data center and at the edge. CloudOps codifies procedures and best practices for cloud-based operational processes, much as DevOps codifies the same for application development and delivery processes.
Cloud Operations relies heavily on analytics to enhance visibility of elements of the cloud environment, providing the insight needed to control resources and run services efficiently.
For some organizations, CloudOps has replaced the network operations center (NOC) as IT operations have shifted from on-premises to cloud-based infrastructure. Just as the NOC monitored and managed the data center, CloudOps monitors, instruments, and manages VMs, containers and workloads that run in a cloud. Developers, IT operations and security all collaborate using CloudOps principles to meet business and technology goals.