Multi-cloud strategies, encompassing both hybrid and multiple public cloud environments, offer benefits such as risk management, regulatory compliance, optimal location for low latency, leveraging diverse cloud offerings, and cost-efficiency. These advantages are accompanied by challenges like increased initial effort, system complexity, networking and latency issues, and the need to judiciously use add-on services from various providers. Successful implementation requires ease of use, consistent platforms, comprehensive management beyond Kubernetes, centralized control, freedom of choice in tools and providers, and centralized monitoring to ensure connectivity and consistent security. Effective multi-cloud management tools should abstract complexities, manage infrastructures across diverse clouds, provide consistent security, and enable service mesh solutions for networking while allowing flexibility and choice. Collaboration with knowledgeable partners is crucial for building robust multi-cloud applications, as demonstrated by efforts at companies like Mirantis, which are developing supportive tools for these environments.