7 Hybrid applications
This chapter covers
- Highly available applications
- Geographically distributed applications
- Hybrid multicloud applications
- Applications regulated by law
- Applications that must run on the edge
In the real world, applications are bound by rules such as data locality requirements, resource constraints, situations where a stable connection to the cloud cannot be guaranteed—such as at a baseball stadium, a construction site, or on a fighter jet—to do low-latency computation locally on the edge to avoid large amounts of data transfer. The application must be available and survive a regional disaster or cloud outage.
However, a need to run applications with the same consistency and stability that the Kubernetes platform ...
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