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Cloud Native Architectures

By : Tom Laszewski, Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, Piyum Zonooz
Book Image

Cloud Native Architectures

By: Tom Laszewski, Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, Piyum Zonooz

Overview of this book

Cloud computing has proven to be the most revolutionary IT development since virtualization. Cloud native architectures give you the benefit of more flexibility over legacy systems. To harness this, businesses need to refresh their development models and architectures when they find they don’t port to the cloud. Cloud Native Architectures demonstrates three essential components of deploying modern cloud native architectures: organizational transformation, deployment modernization, and cloud native architecture patterns. This book starts with a quick introduction to cloud native architectures that are used as a base to define and explain what cloud native architecture is and is not. You will learn what a cloud adoption framework looks like and develop cloud native architectures using microservices and serverless computing as design principles. You’ll then explore the major pillars of cloud native design including scalability, cost optimization, security, and ways to achieve operational excellence. In the concluding chapters, you will also learn about various public cloud architectures ranging from AWS and Azure to the Google Cloud Platform. By the end of this book, you will have learned the techniques to adopt cloud native architectures that meet your business requirements. You will also understand the future trends and expectations of cloud providers.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

The cloud native toolKit


The tools for cloud native operations can cover many different areas, and the following list is by no means complete. The list simply reflects some of the most important and pivotal tools the authors have used or encountered in their projects.

Slack

For most developers, the thought of using email or any other chat-based service is a nonstarter. Slack represents a shift in the way teams communicate by bringing together human CND teams and bots to create a unified communications platform for making decisions, sharing progress, and operating systems (https://slack.com/).

 

 

Stelligent cfn-nag

The cfn-nag (https://github.com/stelligent/cfn_nag) tool looks for patterns in AWS CloudFormation templates that may indicate insecure infrastructure. Roughly speaking, it will look for the following:

  • IAM rules that are too permissive (wildcards)
  • Security group rules that are too permissive (wildcards)
  • Access logs that aren't enabled
  • Encryption that isn't enabled

GitHub

GitHub is a development...