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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

Hybrid and multi-cloud

Cloud solutions can be very complex and continuously evolving. There can be different kinds of public, private, and on-premises cloud platforms. Sometimes, a workload can be deployed on multiple cloud platforms. Based on the nature of the target workload, we can split the target platform into two different kinds, such as the hybrid cloud and the multi-cloud platform.

What is a hybrid cloud?

When distributed platforms from the public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure are unified to create a single, robust, cost-optimal IT infrastructure for the target workload, the target workload is known as a hybrid cloud platform. A hybrid cloud platform can run, manage, and autoscale traditional or cloud-native workloads.

Characteristics of hybrid cloud

The core characteristics of the hybrid cloud are as follows:

  • Shared platform: A common platform for managing and support enables an organization to enforce a standard set of policies and...