5Orchestration and Cloud Management
5.1 What Is Orchestration?
Orchestration, like cloud computing, is a word that means different things to different people. Here is what we mean when we use the term orchestration:
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Definition: Automation of network, computation, and data layers to form cohesive workflows that provide self-service functionality to the enterprise.
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Purpose: Abstract the technical layers and provide the business with speed, consistency, and efficiency when using IT services.
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Context: We will narrow the scope of our orchestration discussion to information security and private cloud computing in this chapter.
5.2 Benefits and Challenges
Orchestration is a fundamental principle to deploying private clouds due to the ...
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