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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

Summary – setting up hybrid cloud


I hope that you have understood the building blocks of the hybrid cloud. We now know that the first step in deploying a hybrid cloud is the architecture and configuration of the underpinning services such as network, DNS, and infrastructure core services. 

For use cases that are more passive - such as DR and backup services, since it's a one time setup, the setup is done manually. However, for use cases such as creating isolated environments or cloud bursting, an orchestrator is normally used.

One type is the orchestrator, which is used to simply provision the virtual machines and services in both the private and the public cloud. This can be used for the isolated use case.

The other type of orchestrator extends between the clouds and performs infrastructure plumbing in order to perform cloud bursting. 

In the remainder of the book, we will be building an example of both of the types mentioned previously. One will be built using a cloud management platform,...