Cloud Without Compromise: Hybrid Cloud for the Enterprise

Preface: Who This Book Is For
    Conventions Used in This Book
    O’Reilly Online Learning
    How to Contact Us
    Our Collective Thank Yous and Acknowledgments
    Our Personal Dedications and Reflections
        Paul Zikopoulos
        Christopher Bienko
        Chris Backer
        Chris Konarski
        Sai Vennam
Introduction
1. Cloudy Skies Are the Best Forecast Ever
    Thrivers, Divers, and New Arrivers
    Business Vaccination: The Arriver’s Guide
        Cost Takeout
        Resiliency
        Performance
        Security
        Modernization
        AI
    So Why Are Cloudy Skies the Best Forecast Ever?
2. Evolution of Cloud
    Are You on the Intranet, Internet, or Extranet? Nah—Just Internet
    Are You on a Private Cloud, Public Cloud, or Community Cloud? Nah—Just Cloud
    History Repeats Itself: From Granularity of Terms to General Terms
    Hybrid Cloud’s “Chapter 2”: Distributed Cloud
        Distributed Cloud On-Premises
    Living on the Edge: Distributed Cloud
        Distributed Cloud for Multicloud
        A Caveat to Distributed Cloud
        Distributed Cloud: The Ultimate Unification Layer
    Industry Expertise in Mission-Critical Business Processes
    Proven Security, Compliance, and Governance
    Confidential Computing and Zero Trust Architectures
    Build Once and Run Anywhere with Consistency
    Capture the World’s Innovation
    Cloud Solely for Savings Could Leave You with Cravings: A Trend of Repatriation
    Be Ye a Renovator, Innovator, or Both? How You Spend Budget
    Adopting a “Learning Never Ends” Culture: A Cloud Success Secret Ingredient
    Ready, Set, Cloud!
3. “Cloud Chapter 2”: The Path to Cloud Native
    Eras of Application Development
        In the Beginning: Monoliths and Waterfalls
        SOA Is the SOS to Your Monolith
        Microservices: What SOA Would Be If It Was Version 2.0
        First “Pass” on PaaS
        Lessons Learned: The Rise of Containers
        But Wait, Don’t VMs Do the Same Thing!?
        Docker Brings Containers to the Masses
    A Practical Understanding of Kubernetes
        Starting the Kubernetes Journey
    Time to Start Building
4. Cloud Computing: Patterns for The What, The How, and The Why
    Patterns of Cloud Computing: A Working Framework for Discussion
    Order Up: Pizza as a Service
    Do (Almost All of) It Yourself: Infrastructure as a Service
        IaaS has a Twin Sibling: Bare Metal
    Noisy Neighbors Can Be Bad Neighbors: The Multitenant Cloud
        Cloud Regions and Cloud Availability Zones for Any As-a-Service Offering
    Building the Developer’s Sandbox with Platform as a Service
        Digging Deeper into PaaS
        Composing in the Fabric of Cloud Services
    Consuming Functionality Without the Stress: Software as a Service
    The Cloud Bazaar: SaaS and the API Economy
    All You Need Is a Little Bit of REST and Some Microservices
        It’s Not Magic, But It’s Cool: The Server in Serverless?
        Serverless has a Kid! Function as a Service
        The Takeaway
    Wrapping It Up
5. Shift Left
    Monolithic and Microservices
        Separating the Old from the New
        Microservices Dance to a Different Fiddle
        Scaling: One of These Things Is Not Like the Other
        Orchestration: Amplifying the Challenges of Scale
    Write Once, Run Anywhere
        Three Stages of Approaching Modernization Incrementally
    Comparing Legacy Applications, Containerized Applications, and Virtual Machines
        Namespaces: What’s in a Name?
        Building an Operating System for Containers
    It’s OK to Have an Opinion: Opinionated Open Source
        Putting It All Together
6. Hackers, Attackers, and Would-Be Bad Actors: Thoughts on Security for Hybrid Cloud
    Just to Level Set: What’s This Open Source Stuff?
    Data Breaches, Exploits, and Vulnerabilities
        Hackers Don’t Care Where You Work: Public Cloud and Security
    A Case Study in Exploitable OSS
    Did You Leave the Container Door Open?
    Zero Trust in a Hybrid Cloud World
    Importance of Sec(urity) in DevSecOps
    Container Security Visibility 101
7. Data Gravity
    Data Gravity: More Formally Defined
    Container-Ready and Container-Native Storage
        Solving Challenges of Business Continuity in a Containerized World
        Why Storage? Why Now? The Curious Evolution of Persistence for Containers
        Container: May Ye Live Long and Prosper
        Container-Ready and Container-Native: Reinventing Storage for Containerized Applications
        Adding Storage for Containers…The Right Way
    Seven Best Practices for Securing Containerized Data and Applications
        1. Multitenancy and the Unusual World of Container Host Operating Systems
        2. Trusting Your Sources
        3. Protecting the Software Build Process
        4. Wrangling Deployments on Clusters
        5. Orchestrating Securely
        6. Lockdown: Network Isolation and API Endpoint Security
        7. United Federation of Containerized Applications
    Readying Data for the New Normal
8. Ecosystem for Automation
    Rethinking Automation for the As-a-Service Era
    More Agency with Agentless Design
    What’s the Play? Architecting for Automation
    Streamlined Automation for the Hybrid Multicloud Era
        Automation for Multivendor Stacks
        Automation for Cloud-Scale Deployments
        Automation for Stress-Free DevOps
    Automation Everywhere and for All
A. Speaking Kubernetes and Other Strange-Sounding Names
    The Perfect Open Source Project
    Day 1 on the Job: Helm Package Management
    Day 2 on the Job: Kubernetes Operators to Save the Day
    The Infrastructure…Of Course!
    Making the Network Tractable: Service Meshes
    Testing, Integration, and Deployment
    Monitoring and Observability
        Prometheus
        Grafana
        Alertmanager
    The Paradox of Choice: Red Hat OpenShift
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