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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

Introduction to OpenStack SDK


There are a number of OpenStack SDKs available on the market that can be used to interact with OpenStack services. Being an open source cloud platform, different developer communities contribute and build their own SDKs specific to the requirements. The following are a few of the available OpenStack SDKs that can be used by developers specific to their programming language of choice.

Go

Gophercloud is an OpenStack SDK available for developers using the Go programming language. It provides APIs for many services of OpenStack, such as Compute, Block Storage, Object Storage, Networking, and Identity.

Java

Some of the available OpenStack SDKs for the Java programming language are as follows:

  • OpenStack4j: This library has been broken up into several major API abstractions depending on the available OpenStack services
  • OpenStack Java SDK: This library provides a good Java binding for the OpenStack APIs
  • Apache JClouds: This library provides multi-cloud APIs for interacting...