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Cloud Native Architectures

By : Tom Laszewski, Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, Piyum Zonooz
Book Image

Cloud Native Architectures

By: Tom Laszewski, Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, Piyum Zonooz

Overview of this book

Cloud computing has proven to be the most revolutionary IT development since virtualization. Cloud native architectures give you the benefit of more flexibility over legacy systems. To harness this, businesses need to refresh their development models and architectures when they find they don’t port to the cloud. Cloud Native Architectures demonstrates three essential components of deploying modern cloud native architectures: organizational transformation, deployment modernization, and cloud native architecture patterns. This book starts with a quick introduction to cloud native architectures that are used as a base to define and explain what cloud native architecture is and is not. You will learn what a cloud adoption framework looks like and develop cloud native architectures using microservices and serverless computing as design principles. You’ll then explore the major pillars of cloud native design including scalability, cost optimization, security, and ways to achieve operational excellence. In the concluding chapters, you will also learn about various public cloud architectures ranging from AWS and Azure to the Google Cloud Platform. By the end of this book, you will have learned the techniques to adopt cloud native architectures that meet your business requirements. You will also understand the future trends and expectations of cloud providers.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed the inherent weaknesses of how legacy organizations devote their staff to produce systems. These weaknesses have become increasingly apparent as cloud technology has become a huge enabler to businesses. We then introduced a new model for developing, deploying, and maintaining systems—CND teams.

CND teams are at the heart of building mature cloud native architectures, since they have the agility, freedom, and focus to own their systems all up. They are not strained by CABs or oversight, as long as they maintain their APIs and SLAs advertised to other systems and teams.

We discussed the use of Cloud-Managed Service Providers, and how a Cloud MSP can be a stepping stone to greater cloud maturity. Furthermore, central to cloud native operations are building with IaC. We introduced examples of how to build, test, deploy, and maintain systems with IaC. Finally, we concluded with cloud native tools popular in the marketplace today to enable cloud native operations...