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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

Identifying the key roles

Application modernization and cloud migration are very complex programs. They require concrete planning, so it is essential to identify the right roles. Here are the critical roles of a migration and modernization program:

  • Chief Technical Officer (CTO):
    • Responsible for making the final decisions on different design and architecture aspects and defining the KPIs
  • Chief Financial Officer (CFO):
    • Provides knowledge and help for the CTO to define the KPIs
  • Data Architect (DA):
    • Understands the data insights, data communication pattern, data residency, data security, and compliance, and helps other architects to make the right decisions
    • Designs data operations
  • Application Architect (AA):
    • Designs applications’ architecture and decides the correct migration pattern for different applications
    • Designs continuous integration, continuous deployment (CI/CD), and other operation pipelines for applications
    • Designs an automation framework for data access...