Walmart has recently put the finishing touches on a hybrid cloud platform that aims to allow its software developers to consume a variety of infrastructure types and cloud services through a single console.
Via the so-called Walmart Cloud Native Platform, the global retailer wants to provide its thousands of software engineers with an abstraction layer that allows public cloud and Walmart-owned and operated infrastructure and services to be consumed in a common way.
Building a common platform
“The idea is to abstract the underlying infrastructure so that it looks the same, so that application teams and developers don’t have to worry about the differences between Azure or Walmart infrastructure, for example,” Kevin Evans, vice president of infrastructure services at Walmart, told InfoWorld.