What is cloud orchestration?

Cloud solutions are increasingly dominating the IT market, with a Gartner study predicting that cloud product revenues will surpass traditional IT solutions by 2025. This shift emphasizes the importance of cloud orchestration and automation, which optimize cloud products for efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Cloud orchestration involves coordinating and automating workloads, resources, and infrastructure across cloud environments, while cloud automation focuses on automating individual components. These processes complement each other and are supported by "as a service" models: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and various PaaS orchestration platforms enable cloud orchestration by allowing automation through Infrastructure as Code and deployment management. Octopus Deploy, a cloud-agnostic deployment tool, integrates with these orchestration tools to manage application deployment, ensuring increased efficiency, reduced costs, enhanced security, and support for DevOps practices.