Prologue, Ground rules, covers baseline assumptions the authors took when writing this book.
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Contributors
- Packt Upsell
- Preface
- Prologue
- What is Cloud Computing?
- Cloud computing history
- Cloud computing definition
- Essential characteristics of cloud computing
- Cloud computing operational models
- Cloud service models
- Cloud washing
- Cloud computing taxonomy
- Summary
- Governance and Change Management
- Design Considerations
- Business Drivers, Metrics, and Use Cases
- Architecture Executive Decisions
- Invert for insight – process
- Real-time collaboration
- Express challenges, not requirements
- Automate and enable
- Stop talking technology – Strategy
- Economics, not pricing – Economics
- Solutions, not servers – Technology
- Lower costs can be bad for business – Risk
- Adoption is optional – Culture
- Technology for the executives
- Summary
- Architecting for Transition
- User characteristics
- Application design
- Application migration
- Application workloads
- Application categories
- Application dependencies
- Use of APIs
- Technical architecture requirements
- Legal/regulatory/security requirements
- Business continuity and disaster recovery – BCDR
- Economics
- Organizational assessment
- Summary
- Baseline Cloud Architectures
- Solution Reference Architectures
- Cloud Environment Key Tenets and Virtualization
- Cloud Clients and Key Cloud Services
- Operational Requirements
- Application programming interface
- Common infrastructure file formats – VMs
- Data and application federation
- Deployment
- Federated identity
- Identity management
- Portability and interoperability
- Lifecycle management
- Location awareness
- Metering and monitoring
- Open client
- Availability
- Privacy
- Resiliency
- Auditability
- Performance
- Management and governance
- Transaction and concurrency across clouds
- SLAs and benchmarks
- Provider exit
- Security
- Security controls
- Distributed computing reference model
- Summary
- CSP Performance
- Cloud Application Development
- Data Security
- Application Security
- Risk Management and Business Continuity
- Hands-On Lab 1 – Basic Cloud Design (Single Server)
- Hands-On Lab 2 – Advanced Cloud Design Insight
- Hands-On Lab 3 – Optimizing Current State (12 Months Later)
- Cloud Architecture – Lessons Learned
- Epilogue
- Other Books You May Enjoy
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