The challenges of hybrid environments
In Chapter 5, Policy for Cloud-Native Environments, we discussed cloud-native environments and how policy tools for Container as Service (CaaS) and Function as a Service (FaaS) might help create enforcement patterns.
This chapter will look at the hybrid environments and their definitions, compositions, and challenges.
While I believe that the future is on public cloud platforms using service models such as FaaS, the current reality is multi-cloud with private and on-premises environments. This pattern is still prevalent in large organization segments where there is a need for a hybrid environment due to legal, regulatory, and localization requirements. This is evident as the EU launched efforts such as GAIA-X in 2020 and a draft of the candidate European Union Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services (EUCS) scheme in 2021.
In this section, we will define a hybrid environment and discuss its architecture, along with the benefits...