In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre talks to Roland Barcia, IBM Fellow - Cloud & Data Platform Adoption, IBM Technology (CSM, Tech Sales, Assets, & Tech Garage). They dive deeper into deployment and management space - specifically Day 2 management.  Roland talks about what he thinks the center of gravity for building hybrid applications is -  pipelines to automate deployment of clusters, shared databases, and testing tools. They delve deeper into "layering of pipelines" to ensure maximum automation and portability.  Roland and Andre talk about how to structure the teams so that applications are scalable and easily deployed and not broken into a million pieces because of over-indexing on the "micro" in micro-services. Andre talks about how to efficiently deploy and run microservices and in this case why "less is more". Andre and Roland discuss GitOps, as not just a one time deployment, but more as a management of desired target state, where changes are managed through git which is the one source of truth.
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