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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

Intrusion detection and prevention


The distributed architecture of a hybrid cloud platform is vulnerable to potential cyber attacks by intruders. Traditional intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPs) are not very efficient for a hybrid cloud environment. It is there necessary to consider advanced IDPs that are designed for the cloud platform:

IDPs on a hybrid cloud require an efficient, scalable, and virtualization-based approach. Once the organization's data is hosted in the cloud, the IT administrators have limited control over the data and its resources. IDPs thus also become the responsibility of the cloud provider. However, it is necessary that the administration of the IDPs should be the cloud user and not the cloud provider. This gives the organization's IT security team more control over the IDPs and helps in ensuring the security of their data and resources.

The reports generated from the IDPs must be sent out to the hybrid cloud security administrators so that a risk mitigation...