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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

Prioritization and a planning roadmap

This step aims to establish the vision and get ready to execute modernization. First, we need to design a firm hypothesis of the business challenges identified in the discovery phase and their priorities, based on the business value and other KPIs. Each hypothesis is targeted to solve one business challenge with the help of collected data and an automated process around it to manage the business. Hypotheses are designed over multiple sessions to perform data-driven research, a persona-driven user experience, and a root cause analysis to understand the impact on the underlying business. Once all the hypotheses are generated, the next step is to design the roadmap to tackle them sequentially. For the roadmap design, we need to know the answer to the following questions for each hypothesis:

  1. Which one is the most essential hypothesis for a business and its users?
  2. Which one is the most feasible hypothesis to deliver quickly and grow sustainably...