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Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

By : Kevin L. Jackson, Goessling
Book Image

Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

By: Kevin L. Jackson, Goessling

Overview of this book

Cloud adoption is a core component of digital transformation. Scaling the IT environment, making it resilient, and reducing costs are what organizations want. Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions presents and explains critical cloud solution design considerations and technology decisions required to be made for deploying the right cloud service and deployment models, based on your business and technology service requirements. This book starts with the fundamentals of cloud computing and its architectural concepts. It then walks you through cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS), deployment models (public, private, community, and hybrid) and implementation options (enterprise, MSP, and CSP) to explain and describe the key considerations and challenges organizations face during cloud migration. Later, this book delves into how to leverage DevOps, Cloud-Native, and serverless architectures in your cloud environment and presents industry best practices for scaling your cloud environment. Finally, this book addresses in depth how to manage essential cloud technology service components, such as data storage, security controls, and disaster recovery. By the end of this book, you will have mastered all the design considerations and operational trades required to adopt cloud services, no matter which cloud service provider you choose.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Prologue
18
Hands-On Lab 1 – Basic Cloud Design (Single Server)
20
Hands-On Lab 3 – Optimizing Current State (12 Months Later)
21
Cloud Architecture – Lessons Learned
22
Epilogue

Integrated Development Environment

An IDE provides an application development environment for developers that is managed by a cloud service provider. This eliminates the complexities associated with maintaining and operating the application development infrastructure. Developers can access and administer PaaS services via a web browser or IDE plugin. Some common PaaS IDEs include:

  • Elastic Beanstalk, native to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The code is uploaded and the PaaS automatically deploys the WAR file to one or more EC2.
  • Heroku, which uses standard libraries with application servers (such as Tomcat and Jetty) but is extensible and natively supports Ruby, Node, Python, Java, Clojure, Go, Groovy, Scala, and PHP.
  • Red Hat OpenShift, which supports Java, Ruby, Node, Python, PHP, and Perl.
  • IBM Bluemix, which is based on CloudFoundry, is extensible, and natively supports Java, Node...