Hybrid Cloud Deployment – Architecture and Preparation

It is finally the time to put all the theory we have learnt into practice, and create an environment that will be used to show the implementation of the different use cases possible in the hybrid cloud. 

For this, we will need a private cloud environment and a public cloud environment connected to each other. The private cloud environment will be run from our data center, so, we can also assume that the traditional workloads are also there. 

In order to set this up, we will use OpenStack as the private cloud and we will create an AWS VPC for a public cloud infrastructure. Since, we are using this as a lab or demo environment, we will simply use the IPSec VPN to connect between the two as no particular jitter-sensitive applications are going to be running in the environment. 

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