Achieving Digital Transformation Using Hybrid Cloud: Design standardized next-generation applications for any infrastructure

Accelerate your career growth by building dynamic applications that function across all environments and cloud types

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Key Features

• Learn hybrid cloud architecture from experienced cloud and telco architects
• Adapt and deploy emerging technologies like AI and ML in a standardized and secure manner
• Master communication between Kubernetes clusters and management

Book Description

Hybrid cloud technology can be leveraged by organizations aiming to build next-gen applications while safeguarding prior technological investments. This book will help you explore different hybrid cloud architectural patterns, whether designing new projects or migrating legacy applications to the cloud.

You'll learn about the key building blocks of hybrid cloud enabling you to deploy, manage, and secure applications and data while porting the workloads between environments without rebuilding. Further, you’ll explore Kubernetes, GitOps, and Layer 3/7 services to reduce operational complexity. You'll also learn about nuances of security and compliance in hybrid cloud followed by the economics of hybrid cloud. You’ll gain a deep understanding of the concepts with use cases from telecom 5G and industrial manufacturing, giving you a glimpse into real industry problems resolved by hybrid cloud, and unlocking millions of dollars of opportunities for enterprises.

By the end of this book, you'll be well-equipped to design and develop efficient hybrid cloud strategies, lead conversations with senior IT and business executives, and succeed in hybrid cloud implementation or transformation opportunities.

What you will learn

• Design and build a foundation for hybrid cloud platform
• Leverage Kubernetes, containers, and GitOps for hybrid cloud
• Use architectural pattern blueprints to deliver applications on hybrid cloud
• Enable communication between applications hosted on different clouds
• Rollout zero-touch provisioning and monitoring in a hybrid architecture
• Enhance stability and scale up or down without rebuilding apps
• Understand principles of hybrid cloud security for application stack
• Design cost-optimized systems based on the economics of hybrid cloud

Who this book is for

This book is for cloud architects, developers, and DevOps engineers, responsible for delivering modern applications and deploying resources anywhere. Professionals aspiring to implement distributed and cloud solutions will also benefit from reading this book. Basic understanding of VM, containers, CI/CD and familiarity with public cloud and edge is a must.

Table of Contents

1. Adopting the Right Strategy for Building a Hybrid Cloud
2. Dealing with VMs, Containers, and Kubernetes
3. Provisioning Infrastructure with IaC
4. Communicating across Kubernetes
5. Design Patterns for Telcos and Industrial Sectors
6. Securing the Hybrid Cloud
7. Hybrid Cloud Best Practices

Vikas Grover is a leading expert in open source technologies and has worked with a diverse range of clients from the finance and telecommunications sectors, providing innovative solutions in areas such as derivatives, credit cards, payments, telecom OSS/BSS, and the private cloud. He is a respected speaker at industry events. Vikas is dedicated to helping others succeed, guided by his personal motto, “Helping others get what they want is the key to getting everything you want in life.”

Ishu Verma is a technology advocate at Red Hat focused on emerging technologies such as edge computing, IoT, and AI/ML. He enjoys working with fellow open source hackers to work on ideas for next-gen open source technologies to benefit various industry verticals such as telco and industrial. Before Red Hat, Ishu worked at Intel and Wind River Systems on IoT gateways, embedded processors, platforms, and software.

He is a frequent blogger and speaker at open source and industry forums. Ishu resides in the Valley of the Sun, Arizona with his wife and two boys.

Praveen Rajagopalan has over 20 years of experience in the field of information technology and started his professional career as a DevOps engineer. Praveen is currently a customer engineer at Google Cloud, helping enterprises with their digital transformation journey, which includes cloud transformation and application modernization across many different industry verticals. Recently, he has found passion in helping Google Cloud’s customers explore SaaS as a business model and helping them transform their applications to run as SaaS on Google Cloud. Praveen’s passion is to solve core business-impacting problems and help enterprises become more agile and accelerate their growth. Praveen currently lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and daughter.