Cloud Computing for Dummies 2ed

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Part 1: Understanding Cloud Concepts 

Chapter 1: Understanding the Cloud

• Looking at the Ecosystem of Cloud Computing
• Understanding Cloud Concepts
• The public cloud
• The private cloud
• The hybrid and multi cloud model
• Cloud Computing Elements: Resource Pools/Cloud Models
• and Services
• Cloud delivery models
• The computing resources life cycle
• Understanding Self-Service Provisioning and Elasticity
• Establishing a Dynamic Life Cycle across Workloads and Data
• Management Services
• The Changing Role of the Data Center
• Evolution of the data center into a private cloud
• Seeing how the public cloud fits
• Knowing when the private cloud shines

Chapter 2: Embracing the Business Imperative

• Understanding IT Transformation
• Escaping the IT Legacy Trap
• Preparing for the Cloud
• Building for Innovation
• The Business Imperatives
• Optimizing Your Existing Business
• Modern Development and Deployment Strategies
• Revisiting Your Business Model
• Transforming the Business Model

Part 2: Examining Architectural Considerations 

Chapter 3: Architectural Considerations for the Cloud Environment

• Rethinking the Type of Constituents Your Cloud Serves
• Putting the Pieces Together
• Planning for Deployment
• Latency: Performance matters
• Security: Planning in context
• Governance: Getting the right balance
• Managing colocation
• Creating flexibility in the model
• Setting the Right Policies and Business Rules
• Navigating the Choices in a Hybrid World
• Optimizing for Workloads
• Supporting a Dynamic Life Cycle

Chapter 4: Managing a Hybrid and Multi cloud Environment

• What Are You Managing?
• Managing SaaS Applications
• Optimizing SaaS Management
• Managing External Cloud Resources
• Visibility and control of external resources
• The importance of self-service
• Service level agreements (SLAs)
• Addressing Poor Cloud and Computing Behaviors
• Managing Internal Cloud Resources
• Managing a hybrid cloud environment
• Understanding the role of internal SLAs
• Managing Internal Services
• Supporting cloud customers
• Monitoring internal and external systems
• Constructing dashboards
• Managing External Services
• DevOps and deployment to public clouds
• External system monitoring
• Application and service life cycles
• The Future of Multi cloud Management

Chapter 5: Standards in a Multi cloud World

• What Are Standards?
• Evolution of Standards
• Categories of Cloud-Related Standards
• Interoperability
• Portability
• Security
• Organizations Building Momentum around Standards
• Cloud Security Alliance
• Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC)
• The Open Group
• Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
• Vertical groups
• The Impact of Standards on the Multi cloud

Chapter 6: A Closer Look at Cloud Services

• The Importance of Modularity
• Discovering Why Services Matter in the Cloud
• Explaining Microservices
• The imperative to manage microservices
• Containers
• Kubernetes
• Cataloging services
• Defining Cloud Native Applications
• Moving from virtual machines to cloud native
• Creating innovation
• Differentiating cloud native applications
• Communicating Using APIs
• Setting the Stage for Cloud-Enabled Applications

Part 3: Understanding Cloud Models 

Chapter 7: Introducing All Types of Clouds

• Understanding Public Clouds
• Commercial public clouds
• Open social community clouds
• Open technical community clouds
• Government clouds
• Looking at Private Clouds
• Privately owned and managed clouds
• Appliances based on public cloud offerings
• Commercial private cloud
• Exploring Hybrid Clouds
• Understanding the Continuum of the Cloud
• Selecting Multi cloud for Choice, Efficiency, and Performance
• Thinking about the Integration Imperative
• Types of integration
• Responsibility for integrations
• Integration at the service level
• Integration at the data level
• Integration at the application level

Chapter 8: Using Infrastructure as a Service

• Understanding IaaS
• Exploring the Key Components of Public Cloud IaaS
• The hardware architecture of public clouds
• Virtualization
• Elastic resources and services
• Self-service provisioning
• Service level agreements (SLA)
• Metering, billing, and licensing
• Costs
• Getting to Know Prominent IaaS Cloud Providers
• Discovering the Key Components of Private Cloud IaaS
• Using IaaS in Multi cloud

Chapter 9: Using Software as a Service

• Understanding the Characteristics of SaaS
• Multi-tenancy and its benefits
• The need for cloud native SaaS
• Understanding SaaS Economics
• Figuring Out How SaaS Fits into the Multi cloud World
• Using SaaS as a Platform
• Discovering who builds applications on SaaS platforms
• Developing on a SaaS vendor’s platform
• Looking at examples of SaaS platforms

Chapter 10: Standing on Platform as a Service

• Discovering the Business Value of PaaS
• Identifying the Characteristics of Platform as a Service
• Managing the Software Development and Deployment
• Life Cycle
• Managing an Agile Development Environment
• Defining the Next Generation of Middleware in the Cloud
• Exploring Types of PaaS Platforms
• Public PaaS
• Private PaaS
• Open PaaS
• Reaping the Business Benefits of PaaS

Part 4: Managing in a Multi cloud World 

Chapter 11: Planning for DevOps in the Cloud

• Entering a New Era of DevOps
• The importance of agile development
• Transforming security
• Examining Changes for DevOps in the Cloud
• Discovering the Value of Demand-Driven Applications
• Examining the Role of CI/CD in Agile Development
• Continuous integration
• Continuous testing
• Continuous delivery
• Continuous deployment
• Exploring the Role of Opinionated Continuous Delivery
• Understanding the Challenges to CI/CD Adoption
• Continuous Delivery and the Importance of a DevOps Culture
• The Challenge of CI/CD in the Cloud Era
• Clouds, Containers, and Microservices
• Defining Cloud Native Applications
• Achieving Resilience
• Discovering Reusable Services
• Moving from VMs to Cloud Native
• Open-Source Cloud Native Applications
• Differentiating Cloud Native Applications
• The Foundation of Microservices
• The Imperative to Manage Microservices
• The Value of the Container Model
• The Role of APIs

Chapter 12: Managing Multi cloud Workloads

• What is a Workload?
• All workloads aren’t the same
• Workloads not suited for the cloud
• Resource abstraction and workloads
• Workload Management
• Workload Complexities in the Multi cloud Environment
• Operationalized workloads
• APIs: Keys to cloud resources
• Workload Portability

Chapter 13: Managing Data Storage in the Cloud

• Understanding Cloud Storage Fundamentals
• Cloud storage access protocols
• Delivery options for cloud storage
• Functions of cloud storage
• Benefits of cloud storage
• Deploying Hybrid Cloud Storage
• Interfaces
• Security
• Reliability
• Business continuity
• Reporting and chargeback
• Management
• Performance/latency
• Data and network speed
• Planning for Cloud Growth and Change
• Understanding your data
• Devising a growth strategy
• Choosing a provider

Part 5: Developing Your Cloud Strategy 

Chapter 14: Managing and Integrating Data in the Cloud

• Ensuring Trustworthy Data
• Controlling customer data privacy
• Assessing cloud data risks
• Securing data in the cloud
• Integrating Data across Environments
• Three integration scenarios
• Options for cloud data integration
• Managing Big Data in the Cloud
• Master data management
• Big data characteristics
• Supporting an Analytics Strategy
• Big data analytics
• Other cloud analytics
• Talking to Providers about Data Control

Chapter 15: Promoting Cloud Security and Governance

• Exploring the Risks of Operating in the Cloud
• Cloud provider risks
• End-user risks
• Developing a Secure Hybrid Environment
• Assessing your current state
• Assessing your cloud vendor
• Digging deeper into identity management
• Understanding data protection options
• Sharing security responsibility with your cloud provider
• Creating a Cloud Governance Strategy
• Understanding governance risks
• Implementing a governance strategy
• Making governance work
• Measuring and monitoring governance performance

Chapter 16: Breaking Down Cloud Economics

• Balancing Costs with Requirements
• Striking the Right Balance of Environments for a Hybrid Cloud
• Reaping the Economic Benefit of the Cloud
• Filling the need for capacity
• Selecting a SaaS for common applications
• Selecting a massively scaled application
• When it’s not black and white
• Understanding the Economics of the Data Center
• Evaluating Costs in the Hybrid Environment

Chapter 17: Planning Your Cloud Strategy

• At the Beginning: The Move to the Cloud
• Starting the Plan
• Stage 1 : Assess your current IT strategy
• Stage 2 : Imagine the future
• Stage 3 : Explore what’s out there
• Stage 4 : Create a hybrid cloud strategy plan
• Stage 5 : Plan for implementation
• Stages of Strategy Planning: An Overview
• Focusing the Plan on Providing Services to Your Constituents
• Cloud service consumer services
• Comprehensive cloud provider services
• Cloud service creation services
• Supporting a Successful Customer Experience
• Supporting innovation
• Defining the optimal customer experience
• Optimizing for workloads
• Supporting a Dynamic Life Cycle
• Abstracting Complexity in the Cloud
• Balancing Costs and Benefits
• Defining the purpose of your cloud services
• Taking a holistic approach

Part 6: The Part of Tens 

Chapter 18: Ten Cloud Resources

• Standards Organizations
• Consortiums and Councils
• Open-Source Offerings
• The Cloud Security Alliance
• The Cloud Storage Initiative
• Vendor Sites
• Cloud Computing Conferences
• CIO.gov
• Open Data Center Alliance

Chapter 19: Ten Cloud Do’s and Don’ts

• Do Plan for Cloud Native
• Do Plan for Data Consistency and Manageability
• Do Decide and Plan for Cloud Services
• Do Have a Service Management Plan
• Do Plan for Portability
• Do Plan for Security
• Do Execute on an Overall Hybrid Cloud Plan
• Don’t Rely on only a Single Vendor
• Don’t Over-Invest in Licenses
• Don’t Overlook the Need to Manage Infrastructure
• Don’t Leave Your Data Center Alone
• Don’t Ignore the Service Level Agreement
• Do Move Forward and Don’t Look Back

Glossary

Index