Beyond the Walled Garden: Orchestrating, Observing, and Optimizing the Multi-Vendor Ecosystem with GCP

The modern enterprise doesn’t run on a single cloud; it runs on a complex, multi-vendor ecosystem. While leveraging best-of-breed tools like Databricks, Datadog, or Denodo alongside major cloud providers offers incredible power, it also introduces a massive operational headache: siloed data, unpredictable costs, and the dreaded "54 different dashboards" problem.

In this session, we will explore how Google Cloud is evolving to serve as the unifying control plane for your entire multi-cloud architecture. We will dive into strategies for orchestrating workloads across boundaries using GCP Fleets, demonstrating how to seamlessly attach and manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Amazon EKS clusters from a single hub. Moving beyond mere operations, we will discuss how to implement vendor-agnostic instrumentation using OpenTelemetry (OTEL) and cover actionable FinOps strategies to manage costs across your diverse fleet of tools. Finally, we will demonstrate how to cure dashboard sprawl by leveraging GCP's log and metrics aggregation, culminating in a unified, single-pane-of-glass experience using Looker Studio. Learn how to stop managing platforms and start orchestrating your business.