SaaS on Multiple Clouds with Steve Buchanan

About this episode

Richard chats with Steve Buchanan about deploying SaaS offerings across multiple cloud providers and the tools needed for consistency.

What does it take to get your SaaS offering on multiple cloud providers? Richard chats with Steve Buchanan about his new role at JAMF, which focuses on a mobile device management product for Apple devices. Originally built as a SaaS product on AWS, Steve is helping to build out the JAMF stack on Azure to support a broader range of customers. Steve talks about Kubernetes as the common ground among the major cloud players, but you need to dig into the rest of the tooling to minimize differences across implementations. That means cloud-agnostic tools for deployment, identity, instrumentation, and more! The good news is that there are plenty of tools out there to help you, but it does take time to work out your suite of tools to get consistent results, no matter where the backend resides.

People in this episode

Host: Richard Campbell

Guest: Steve Buchanan

Topics covered

• SaaS
• cloud computing
• multi-cloud strategy
• Kubernetes
• mobile device management
• cloud-agnostic tools

Keywords

• SaaS
• cloud providers
• JAMF
• AWS
• Azure
• Kubernetes
• cloud-agnostic
• mobile device management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: JAMF, AWS, Azure

Products: mobile device management product, Kubernetes

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