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