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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

Provisioning Infrastructure with IaC

In the previous chapters, you learned about containers and VMs, the building blocks of hybrid cloud infrastructure. This chapter will show you how to use the hybrid cloud by explaining the methodologies needed to provision and operate a hybrid cloud infrastructure. We’ll look at the evolution of infrastructure provisioning over the years, from ticket-based request systems to software-defined, automated, self-service systems – this transformation from purpose-built systems configured by operations specialists to software-abstracted systems that follow agile software development methodologies. We’ll also explore the tools you can use to configure and deploy the infrastructure and needed services.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Infrastructure provisioning overview
  • Virtualizing hardware with Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)
  • Provisioning and managing infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code...