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Achieving Digital Transformation Using Hybrid Cloud

By : Vikas Grover, Ishu Verma, Praveen Rajagopalan
Book Image

Achieving Digital Transformation Using Hybrid Cloud

By: Vikas Grover, Ishu Verma, Praveen Rajagopalan

Overview of this book

Hybrid cloud technology can be leveraged by organizations aiming to build next-gen applications while safeguarding prior technological investments. This book will help you explore different hybrid cloud architectural patterns, whether designing new projects or migrating legacy applications to the cloud. You'll learn about the key building blocks of hybrid cloud enabling you to deploy, manage, and secure applications and data while porting the workloads between environments without rebuilding. Further, you’ll explore Kubernetes, GitOps, and Layer 3/7 services to reduce operational complexity. You'll also learn about nuances of security and compliance in hybrid cloud followed by the economics of hybrid cloud. You’ll gain a deep understanding of the concepts with use cases from telecom 5G and industrial manufacturing, giving you a glimpse into real industry problems resolved by hybrid cloud, and unlocking millions of dollars of opportunities for enterprises. By the end of this book, you'll be well-equipped to design and develop efficient hybrid cloud strategies, lead conversations with senior IT and business executives, and succeed in hybrid cloud implementation or transformation opportunities.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Part 1: Containers, Kubernetes, and DevOps for Hybrid Cloud
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Part 2: Design Patterns, DevOps, and GitOps

Introduction to VM and containers

It is very important to understand two significant forces in the cloud world – virtualization and containers. These technologies are similar in some ways and aim to provide efficiency, portability, and DevOps capabilities, but they do so differently and have some unique characteristics.

In later chapters, we will use examples and use cases from the telecoms and 5G world in the context of the hybrid cloud. The telecoms industry is evolving at a fast pace based on a service-based architecture (SBA). Virtualization, containers, and Kubernetes are key to the implementation of 5G and are at the heart of it. These technologies allow telecoms operators to bring new services to market without worrying about the underlying infrastructure/cloud.

Let’s take some time to dig deep and understand these technologies.

VMs

Most of us run our workloads on VMs. By utilizing virtualization technology, specifically the hypervisor component, VMs...