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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

By : Manoj Hirway
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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

By: Manoj Hirway

Overview of this book

This book introduces you to the hybrid cloud platform, and focuses on the AWS public cloud and OpenStack private cloud platforms. It provides a deep dive into the AWS and OpenStack cloud platform services that are essential for developing hybrid cloud applications. You will learn to develop applications on AWS and OpenStack platforms with ease by leveraging various cloud services and taking advantage of PaaS. The book provides you with the ability to leverage the ?exibility of choosing a cloud platform for migrating your existing resources to the cloud, as well as developing hybrid cloud applications that can migrate virtual machine instances from AWS to OpenStack and vice versa. You will also be able to build and test cloud applications without worrying about the system that your development environment supports. The book also provides an in-depth understanding of the best practices that are followed across the industry for developing cloud applications, as well as for adapting the hybrid cloud platform. Lastly, it also sheds light on various troubleshooting techniques for OpenStack and AWS cloud platform services that are consumed by hybrid cloud applications. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of the hybrid cloud platform and will be able to develop robust, efficient, modular, scalable, and ?exible cloud applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Developing secure applications


The application development process begins with the analysis of the requirements. For some applications, requirements may emerge as time progresses. Since application security is of prime importance, it must be taken into consideration early during the requirements and analysis phase of the software development cycle. In most cases, the tools and processes used to design and develop robust, clean, and efficient software also help in writing secure code. However, the following areas should be considered while developing secure hybrid cloud applications.

Data manipulation

A hybrid cloud application may have to handle different kinds of data. Some of it may be sensitive and requires special handling. For example, if the user's password has to be handled by the application, it should be handled with care. The following points should be considered while handling sensitive data:

  • A password should not be visible on the screen when the user types it. Even if asterisks...