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Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Operations Explained

By : Mansura Habiba
Book Image

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Operations Explained

By: Mansura Habiba

Overview of this book

Most organizations are now either moving to the cloud through modernization or building their apps in the cloud. Hybrid cloud is one of the best approaches for cloud migration and the modernization journey for any enterprise. This is why, along with coding skills, developers need to know the big picture of cloud footprint and be aware of the integration models between apps in a hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure. This book represents an overview of your end-to-end journey to the cloud. To be future agnostic, the journey starts with a hybrid cloud. You'll gain an overall understanding of how to approach migration to the cloud using hybrid cloud technologies from IBM and Red Hat. Next, you’ll be able to explore the challenges, requirements (both functional and non-functional), and the process of app modernization for enterprises by analyzing various use cases. The book then provides you with insights into the different reference solutions for app modernization on the cloud, which will help you to learn how to design and implement patterns and best practices in your job. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to successfully modernize applications and cloud infrastructure in hyperscaler public clouds such as IBM and hybrid clouds using Red Hat technologies as well as develop secure applications for cloud environments.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: Moving to Hybrid Cloud
5
Part 2: Cloud-Native Methods, Practices, and Technology
8
Part 3: Elements of Embedded Linux

Chapter 9: Designing a Resilient Platform for Cloud Migration

A cloud migration solution should ensure business continuity (BC). Therefore, resiliency is one of the fundamental characteristics of the cloud. Resiliency enforces high availability (HA), auto-scaling, workload backup and restore, failover, and disaster recovery (DR) to ensure the ecosystem is fault-tolerant and BC is verified in the target state after cloud migration. The core characteristics of resiliency are noted here:

  • HA is achieved when the organization’s data, system, and environment are available to end users.
  • Backup and restore focus on copying data, systems, and environment multiple times and restoring them to the corresponding system to ensure their availability for recovery.
  • DR ensures the built-in redundancy of the system with defined failover at the time of failure.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Planning to build a resilient platform
  • Implementing...