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Hybrid Cloud for Architects

By : Alok Shrivastwa
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Hybrid Cloud for Architects

By: Alok Shrivastwa

Overview of this book

Hybrid cloud is currently the buzz word in the cloud world. Organizations are planning to adopt hybrid cloud strategy due to its advantages such as untested workloads, cloud-bursting, cloud service brokering and so on. This book will help you understand the dynamics, design principles, and deployment strategies of a Hybrid Cloud. You will start by understanding the concepts of hybrid cloud and the problems it solves as compared to a stand-alone public and private cloud. You will be delving into the different architecture and design of hybrid cloud. The book will then cover advanced concepts such as building a deployment pipeline, containerization strategy, and data storage mechanism. Next up, you will be able to deploy an external CMP to run a Hybrid cloud and integrate it with your OpenStack and AWS environments. You will also understand the strategy for designing a Hybrid Cloud using containerization and work with pre-built solutions like vCloud Air, VMware for AWS, and Azure Stack. Finally, the book will cover security and monitoring related best practices that will help you secure your cloud infrastructure. By the end of the book, you will be in a position to build a hybrid cloud strategy for your organization.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Software Hardware List
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Security controls consideration in hybrid cloud


Since hybrid cloud is a combination of a private and a public cloud, we will divide this section into the parts and implement the controls individually in both of the clouds. We are again going to be using HIPAA as an example, as in the previous section, to elucidate our point.

Common controls

As we have already looked at HIPAA controls in the previous section, if we notice carefully, the administrative controls are something that are common to both the clouds. The policies will have to be made for the systems. Hence, we are adding that here. If the organization already has HIPAA compliance policies for the in-house data centers, the process for the public cloud can be appended and that should take care of it. 

The technical controls are also common, as they might have a different implementation on different clouds. For example, we may use AWS Directory Service instead of Active Directory on the private cloud, but the concept remains the same...