Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

by Kevin L. Jackson, Scott Goessling
Released May 2018
Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781788472425

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Book description

Accelerating Business and Mission Success with Cloud Computing.

About This Book
  • A step-by-step guide that will practically guide you through implementing Cloud computing services effectively and efficiently.
  • Learn to choose the most ideal Cloud service model, and adopt appropriate Cloud design considerations for your organization.
  • Leverage Cloud computing methodologies to successfully develop a cost-effective Cloud environment successfully.
Who This Book Is For

If you are an IT Administrator, Cloud Architect, or a Solution Architect keen to benefit from cloud adoption for your organization, then this book is for you.

Small business owners, managers, or consultants will also find this book useful.

No prior knowledge of Cloud computing is needed.

What You Will Learn
  • Manage changes in the digital transformation and cloud transition process
  • Design and build architectures that support specific business cases
  • Design, modify, and aggregate baseline cloud architectures
  • Familiarize yourself with cloud application security and cloud computing security threats
  • Design and architect small, medium, and large cloud computing solutions
In Detail

Cloud adoption is a core component of digital transformation. Scaling the IT environment, making it resilient, and reducing costs are what organizations want. Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions presents and explains critical Cloud solution design considerations and technology decisions required to choose and deploy the right Cloud service and deployment models, based on your business and technology service requirements.

This book starts with the fundamentals of cloud computing and its architectural concepts. It then walks you through Cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS), deployment models (public, private, community, and hybrid) and implementation options (Enterprise, MSP, and CSP) to explain and describe the key considerations and challenges organizations face during cloud migration. Later, this book delves into how to leverage DevOps, Cloud-Native, and Serverless architectures in your Cloud environment and presents industry best practices for scaling your Cloud environment. Finally, this book addresses (in depth) managing essential cloud technology service components such as data storage, security controls, and disaster recovery. By the end of this book, you will have mastered all the design considerations and operational trades required to adopt Cloud services, no matter which cloud service provider you choose.

Style and approach

This book will teach you how to architect effective and organizationally aligned Cloud computing solutions by addressing Cloud computing fundamentals, Cloud architecture considerations, Cloud technology service selection, and Cloud computing security controls.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright and Credits
    1. Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions
  3. Contributors
    1. About the authors
    2. About the reviewers
    3. Packt is searching for authors like you
  4. Packt Upsell
    1. Why subscribe?
    2. PacktPub.com
  5. Preface
    1. Who this book is for
    2. What this book covers
      1. Part 1: What you hear about cloud computing
      2. Part 2: How a cloud architect sees cloud computing
      3. Part 3: Technology Services – It’s not about the technology
      4. Part 4: Cloud Security – it’s all about the data
      5. Part 5: Capstone – end-to-end design exercise
    3. To get the most out of this book
      1. Conventions used
    4. Get in touch
      1. Reviews
  6. Prologue
    1. Ground rules
  7. What is Cloud Computing?
    1. Cloud computing history
    2. Cloud computing definition
    3. Essential characteristics of cloud computing
    4. Cloud computing operational models
    5. Cloud service models
      1. IaaS – background
      2. IaaS – things to consider
      3. SaaS – background
      4. SaaS – things to consider
      5. PaaS – background
      6. PaaS – things to consider
      7. Other cloud service models
        1. Cloud deployment models
        2. Public
        3. Private and dedicated
          1. Private cloud
          2. Dedicated cloud
          3. Virtual private cloud
          4. Community
          5. Hybrid
      8. Other delivery models
    6. Cloud washing
    7. Cloud computing taxonomy
    8. Summary
  8. Governance and Change Management
    1. IT governance
    2. Implementation strategy
    3. Change management
    4. IT service management
    5. Architecting cloud computing solution catalogs
    6. Summary
  9. Design Considerations
    1. Foundation for design – the thought process
    2. Foundation for design – the cloud is economic, not technical
    3. Foundation for design – the plans
    4. Understand business strategy and goals
    5. Summary
  10. Business Drivers, Metrics, and Use Cases
    1. Return on Investment
    2. ROI metrics
    3. Key performance indicators
      1. Business goal key performance indicators
      2. Economic goal metric
    4. General use cases
    5. Summary
  11. Architecture Executive Decisions
    1. Invert for insight – process
    2. Real-time collaboration
    3. Express challenges, not requirements
    4. Automate and enable
    5. Stop talking technology – Strategy
    6. Economics, not pricing – Economics
    7. Solutions, not servers – Technology
    8. Lower costs can be bad for business – Risk
    9. Adoption is optional – Culture
    10. Technology for the executives
      1. Cloud service models for executives
      2. Deployment models for executives
      3. Implementation models and IT governance for executives
    11. Summary
  12. Architecting for Transition
    1. User characteristics
    2. Application design
    3. Application migration
    4. Application workloads
      1. Static workloads
      2. Once-in-a-lifetime workloads
      3. Unpredictable and random workloads
    5. Application categories
    6. Application dependencies
    7. Use of APIs
      1. SOAP
      2. REST
        1. Advantages of SOAP and REST
    8. Technical architecture requirements
    9. Legal/regulatory/security requirements
    10. Business continuity and disaster recovery – BCDR
    11. Economics
    12. Organizational assessment
    13. Summary
  13. Baseline Cloud Architectures
    1. Baseline architecture types
      1. Single server
      2. Single-site
        1. Non-redundant three-tier architectures
        2. Redundant three-tier architectures
          1. Single points of failure
          2. Redundancy versus resiliency
          3. Horizontal scaling
    2. OSI model and layer description
      1. Logical and physical designs
      2. Autoscaling architecture
    3. Complex architecture types
      1. Multi-data center architecture
      2. Global server load balancing
      3. Database resiliency
      4. Caching and databases
      5. Alert-based and queue-based scalable setup
      6. Hybrid cloud site architectures
      7. Scalable multi-cloud architecture
      8. Failover multi-cloud architecture
      9. Cloud and dedicated hosting architecture
    4. Architecting for hybrid clouds
      1. Hybrid user interface
      2. Hybrid processing
      3. Hybrid data
      4. Hybrid backup
      5. Hybrid backend
      6. Hybrid application functions
      7. Hybrid multimedia web application
      8. Hybrid development environment
    5. Summary
  14. Solution Reference Architectures
    1. Application security
    2. Web application hosting
    3. Public network
      1. Cloud provider network components
        1. Web service tier
      2. Enterprise network components
        1. Service tier
      3. Security components
    4. API management
    5. E-commerce
      1. Public network components
      2. Cloud provider components
      3. Enterprise network components
        1. Enterprise data
        2. Security
    6. Mobile
      1. Mobile architecture components
      2. Mobile device components
      3. Public network Components
      4. Provider cloud service components
      5. Enterprise network components
    7. Enterprise social collaboration
      1. Cloud customer reference architecture for enterprise social collaboration
        1. Architecture Overview
        2. User network
        3. Service consumer
        4. Provider network
        5. Security
        6. Enterprise network
    8. Big data and analytics
      1. Public network components
      2. Provider cloud components
      3. Enterprise network
      4. Security
    9. Blockchain
      1. Blockchain Reference Architecture Capabilities
        1. Public network
        2. Cloud network
        3. Enterprise data connectivity
        4. Blockchain services
    10. Architecture for IoT
      1. Edge tier
        1. Public network
        2. Cloud service provider
        3. Enterprise network
        4. Security
    11. Architecture for hybrid integration
      1. Public network
      2. Cloud provider network
      3. Enterprise network
    12. Summary
  15. Cloud Environment Key Tenets and Virtualization
    1. Elastic infrastructure
    2. Elastic platform
    3. Node-based availability
    4. Environment-based availability
    5. Technology service consumption model
    6. Design balance
    7. Virtualization
      1. Compute virtualization
      2. Network virtualization
      3. Data virtualization
      4. Application virtualization
    8. Summary
  16. Cloud Clients and Key Cloud Services
    1. Cloud computing clients
    2. IaaS
      1. Compute services
      2. Storage services
        1. Volume/block storage
        2. Object/blob storage
        3. Key-value storage
        4. Archival storage
    3. Communications services
      1. Virtual networks
        1. Message oriented middleware
        2. Exactly-once delivery
        3. At-least-once delivery
        4. Transaction-based delivery
        5. Timeout-based delivery
        6. Metering/monitoring
    4. Auditing
      1. Service level agreement
    5. PaaS
    6. Database
    7. Integrated Development Environment
    8. SaaS
    9. Summary
  17. Operational Requirements
    1. Application programming interface
      1. API levels and categories
      2. Common APIs for cloud storage
      3. Common cloud middleware API
        1. Additional concerns
    2. Common infrastructure file formats – VMs
    3. Data and application federation
    4. Deployment
    5. Federated identity
    6. Identity management
    7. Portability and interoperability
    8. Lifecycle management
    9. Location awareness
    10. Metering and monitoring
    11. Open client
    12. Availability
    13. Privacy
    14. Resiliency
    15. Auditability
    16. Performance
    17. Management and governance
    18. Transaction and concurrency across clouds
    19. SLAs and benchmarks
    20. Provider exit
    21. Security
    22. Security controls
    23. Distributed computing reference model
    24. Summary
  18. CSP Performance
    1. CSP performance metrics
    2. CSP benchmarks
      1. Service level agreements
    3. Summary
  19. Cloud Application Development
    1. Core application characteristics
      1. Loose coupling
      2. Service orientation
    2. Cloud application components
      1. Server side
        1. LAMP
        2. WISA stack
        3. Java
      2. Client side
    3. DevOps
    4. Microservices and serverless architectures
    5. Application migration planning
    6. Summary
  20. Data Security
    1. Data security life cycle
    2. Data classification
    3. Data privacy
    4. Personally Identifiable Information – PII
    5. Summary
  21. Application Security
    1. The application security management process
    2. Application security risks
    3. Cloud computing threats
    4. Summary
  22. Risk Management and Business Continuity
    1. Framing risk
    2. Assessing risk
    3. Monitoring risk
    4. Business continuity and disaster recovery
    5. Summary
  23. Hands-On Lab 1 – Basic Cloud Design (Single Server)
    1. Hands-on labs and exercises
      1. Complexity
      2. Eliminating the noise
      3. Burstorm lab 1 – background (NeBu Systems)
        1. Burstorm lab 1 – getting started
          1. Burstorm lab 1 – creating new model
          2. Burstorm lab 1 – creating a design scenario
          3. Burstorm lab 1 – design scenario solution results
          4. Burstorm lab 1 – high-level rapid insights
    2. Summary
  24. Hands-On Lab 2 – Advanced Cloud Design Insight
    1. Data-driven design
    2. All data is useful; maybe not
    3. Burstorm lab 2 – advanced insight (NeBu Systems)
    4. Burstorm lab 2 - accessing additional detail
      1. Overview of the Details tab
    5. Burstorm lab 2 – selecting for direct comparison
      1. Comparing by price
      2. Comparing by performance
      3. Comparing by price-to-performance
    6. Summary
  25. Hands-On Lab 3 – Optimizing Current State (12 Months Later)
    1. Visualizing current state data
      1. Hands-on lab 3 – visualizing the data
      2. Hands-on lab 3 – NeBu Systems' transformation progress update
      3. Hands-on lab 3 – Current billing file
    2. Summary
  26. Cloud Architecture – Lessons Learned
  27. Epilogue
  28. Other Books You May Enjoy
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Product information

  • Title: Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions
  • Author(s): Kevin L. Jackson, Scott Goessling
  • Release date: May 2018
  • Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781788472425