Getting Started

While the Public Cloud adoption is ubiquitous, few people truly understand how that impacts software architecture, application deployment, and operations.

This presentation by Matthias Luft and Florian Barth covers the basics of Public Cloud services illustrated with several case studies.

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In his presentation Joep Piscaer focused on high-level implications of public cloud services, why organizations think that public cloud is THE answer to their IT challenges, and the ways that introduction of public cloud into your environment will impact your work and your organization. He concluded with a few recommendations on what you should be doing to adapt to the new reality.

In summer 2019 we migrated most of the ipSpace.net infrastructure into AWS, using a combination of VPC, EC2 and S3 to run a content web server and a static main web site.

The section also describes our integration with CloudFlare, and use of CloudFlare access to provide 2-factor authentication for management access and SSH sessions.

Deploying your first public cloud solution could be as simple as a static web site combined with a back-end virtual machine running content management system. This section contains a few ideas along those lines.

We'll start with high-level concepts:

• What AWS services are relevant to a networking engineer?
• What are regions and availability zones?
• How do you implement high availability in AWS environment?

This section introduces Azure API and CLI, high-level constructs like geographies, regions and availability zones, provides an overview of networking elements and high-availability mechanisms and describes resource manager and resource groups.

In this assignment you'll define the public cloud services and networking infrastructure requirements for a public cloud-based solution of your choice.

You could migrate your existing workload into a public cloud, yammer about the lack of enterprise features (like VM- or IP address mobility), and get the results you deserve.

You could also start from scratch and rearchitect the applications to make them better suited for public cloud deployments. The articles collected in this section might help you understand the underlying concepts.