Building a Future-Proof Cloud Infrastructure
Published by Pearson
Today’s Enterprises want cloud-like capabilities and efficiencies in their data centers.
Next generation application models are not just about moving workloads to the cloud but moving applications and services closer to data. This requires a new approach to infrastructure that brings together cloud-like scale and operational efficiency security and reliability.
This training is about “Domain Specific Architectures” and their relevance in the present and future of clouds and datacenter architectures. It covers a detailed comparison of the four most common architectures: sea of cores, FPGAs, ASICs and ASIC with P4.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Understand server evolution, in particular single-thread performance and multi-threaded applications
- Understand network, security and storage services implementations in Clouds and Data Centers
- Where domain specific architectures are superior to general purpose processors
This live event is for you because...
- Network engineers, for the L2, L3 forwarding, Clos networks, VLAN, VXLAN, VPN, TAP network, and network services
- Cloud engineers, for multi-tenancy, overlay networks, virtual switching, and GFT
- Security Engineers for firewall, micro-segmentation, and encryption
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of computer networks and virtualization is required.
- It may be useful to check out the Silvano Gai’s blog at https://silvanogai.github.io
- CompTIA Network+ N10-007 Learning Path https://learning.oreilly.com/learning-paths/learning-path-comptia/9780135940372/
Recommended Preparation
- Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals: Understanding Techniques and Designs for Highly Efficient Data Centers with Cisco Nexus, UCS, MDS, and Beyond
- Silvano Gia’s blog at https://silvanogai.github.io
- Building a Futureproof Cloud Infrastructure https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/building-a-future-proof/9780136624226/
Recommended Follow-up
- Building a Future-Proof Cloud Infrastructure: A Unified Architecture for Network, Security, and Storage Services https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/building-a-future-proof/9780136624226/
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Segment 1: Introduction (45 mins)
- Public and Private Cloud Architectures
- Bare Metal, Virtual Machines, and Containers
- East-West traffic vs. North-South
- Need for Distributed Services Platform
Break: 15 mins
Segment 2: Networking 45 mins
- Core-Distribution-Edge vs Clos Networks
- L2 and L3 forwarding techniques
- VXLAN, EVPN
- Service placement and traffic tromboning
- Host networking, Virtual Switching and OVS
Break: 15 mins
Segment 3: Services and Performance (45 mins)
- ACL, statefull firewall, microsegmentation
- Encryption, IPsec, TLS, DTLS
- Load Balancing
- Tap Network
- Telemetry
- Storage (NVMe, NVMe over Fabric, NVMe virtualization)
Break: 15 mins
Segment 4: Domain Specific Hardware (35 mins)
- Processor Evolution: SpecINT, Moore’s Law, Amdahl’s Law, Dennard Scaling
- NIC Evolution (from NIC to SmartNIC to Domain Specific Hardware)
- SmartNIC architectures: Sea of Cores, FPGAs, ASICs, ASIC with P4
Course wrap-up and next steps (25 min)
Your Instructor
Silvano Gai
Silvano Gai, who grew up in a small village near Asti, Italy, has more than 35 years of experience in computer engineering and computer networks. He is the author of several books and technical publications on computer networking as well as multiple Internet Drafts and RFCs. He is responsible for 50 issued patents. His background includes seven years as a full professor of Computer Engineering, tenure track, at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and seven years as a researcher at the CNR (Italian National Council for Scientific Research). For the past 20 years, he has been in Silicon Valley where, in the position of Cisco Fellow, he was an architect of the Cisco Catalyst family of network switches, of the Cisco MDS family of storage networking switches, of the Nexus family of data center switches, and the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). Silvano is currently a Fellow with Pensando Systems.