Who this book is for

This book is written for architects, engineers, and developers in the telecom across different industry verticals and particularly the telecom industry who are navigating the complexities of using hybrid cloud to deploy solutions like 5G network. This comprehensive guide offers insights and practical design guidelines for adapting and deploying cloud native technologies such as service mesh and Kubernetes.

This book covers a wide range of topics related to hybrid cloud solutions, including the latest developments in the telecom industry like 5G rollouts. It provides real-world examples and best practices using use cases from telecom as well as other industries for designing and deploying successful hybrid cloud infrastructure. In addition, the book offers valuable insights into the challenges of building a hybrid cloud solution in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Adopting the Right Strategy for Building a Hybrid Cloud, provides an introduction to hybrid cloud, common misconceptions of hybrid cloud, and the 6-R Framework and its benefits, to address different kinds of workloads and tools for adopting hybrid cloud.

Chapter 2, Dealing with VMs, Containers, and Kubernetes, explains the different types of hypervisors, the anatomy of containers, different distributions of Kubernetes, and how they help with hybrid clouds.

Chapter 3, Provisioning Infrastructure with IaC, explains the methodologies to provision and operate the hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Chapter 4, Communicating across Kubernetes, focuses on communication design patterns and discusses technologies that operate at Layer 3 and Layer 7 that make distributed and decoupled applications working in different clusters work together.

Chapter 5, Design Patterns for Telcos and Industrial Sectors, discusses 5G Core, the 5G radio access network (RAN). We also talk about industrial edge patterns, operations support system (OSS)/business support system (BSS) patterns, and management solutions.

Chapter 6, Securing the Hybrid Cloud, explains core security principles and components of security in the hybrid cloud, network security, data protection, and compliance and governance.

Chapter 7, Hybrid Cloud Best Practices, explains overall best practices around implementing the appropriate architecture for the appropriate use case and goes into detail about developing the architecture based on hybrid cloud guidelines. It covers a range of topics from the economics to the pitfalls of the hybrid cloud.