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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

Designing and building MVPs or Waves

This step starts with iterative experimental-based approaches over multiple waves, and each wave will enhance the MVP developed in the first wave. The first challenge is to identify the problem, with the highest business value as the most feasible MVP. The goal is to take the minimum chunk of applications and workload for modernization and migration to evaluate the hypothesis defined in the roadmap. The MVP is not built to be the best architecture or design but to make the right impact on user experience and business. Each MVP will require the execution of the following set of actions:

  • Design a high-level and low-level architecture for the MVP around data, storage, scalability, backup, and other functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Choose the cloud delivery model – either private, public, single, or multi-cloud.
  • Design an infrastructure-as-a-code based blueprint for the landing zone.
  • Build an automated process...