IPv6 in Public Cloud Deployments

If you're not familiar with IPv6, you might want to go through this introductory material to figure out whether you should care about IPv6 in your enterprise network or cloud deployment.

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Even if you decide to use only IPv4 in your public cloud virtual private network, you might have to give IPv6-only clients access to your workload. This section describes common transition mechanisms you can use in this case.

Regardless of what you think about the role of IPv6, its usage is growing, and eventually you'll have to bite the bullet in introduce another protocol in your networking infrastructure. This presentation by Ed Horley (who was deploying IPv6 in data environments for years) should help you understand:

• What do you need to consider before you start your IPv6 journey
• Should you implement IPv6 in parallel with IPv4 (dual-stack) in the data center?
• Can IPv6 deployment in a data center be an advantage for certain services, applications and workloads?
• Are there specific things to be wary of when adopting IPv6 in the data center?
• What training, skills and resources do you need to make it actually happen?

In this assignment you'll migrate the virtual networking infrastructure you created in the previous assignment into a dual-stack (IPv4+IPv6) deployment.