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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

Cloud native security toolkit


Now that we have a firm understanding of the approaches and strategies around building secure and reliable cloud native solutions, in this section we will introduce supportive tools, products, and open source projects. It should be noted that these tools help make the end goals discussed in this chapter easier to attain, but come at a price. Naturally, in-house development of these features tuned to your cloud consumption is best, but can prove difficult and timely to do.

Okta

Okta has a growing number of identity-related services, but is best known for it's single-sign on service that allows users to manage login names and passwords for a large number of disparate accounts (across IaaS, PaaS, and Saas). This provides for a much more efficient login experience and helps users (especially admins) to manage multiple user/roles within one cloud account (https://www.okta.com/):

 

Centrify

Centrify is another popular identity and access management tool that integrates...