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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

Application components


Along with the previously mentioned underpinning services, some application components can also be considered underpinning services. In this case, I am talking about the database. Due to it storing persistent data (and the sheer volume of data) and necessity to be consistent, special care should be taken when designing a database for a truly hybrid cloud experience. 

There are two modes in which one could operate the database in a cloud scenario: 

  1. Using global databases 
  2. Using one of the clouds in the hybrid setup to act as a DR/backup of a traditional database 

Again, the mode we would run is completely dependent on the application architecture and what we intend to do with it. 

Global databases 

While most of you might be familiar with standard RDBMSes (Relational Database Management Systems) such as MySQL, MS-SQL, Oracle, and the like, you might not be aware of No-SQL databases and Graph databases. Let's talk about a new age database we like to call a "Global Database...