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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

Exploring fundamental practices for the cloud journey

This chapter will start looking into the first steps that any organization needs to take to start the journey to the cloud. Most organizations in today’s world have started their cloud journey to some extent. However, the majority of their footprints are still on-premises.

Therefore, it is essential to understand the following points:

  • Motivation: Why cloud modernization is essential
  • Tools: What can be migrated or modernized?
  • Path: How to execute and deliver cloud modernization

So, we need to understand the business case to initiate the cloud journey. The correct business use case will help us to find out the answer to why. Once the why is answered, we need to look at the what, which mainly deals with the part of the ecosystem that can be moved to the cloud or re-innovated on the cloud.

In most cases, organizations have several components to identify which components from their IT ecosystem are...