Software-Defined Clouds - the Architecture and Design Patterns

The cloud paradigm is on the fast track. There are a number of game-changing advancements in the cloud space, and hence the adoption rate of the cloud concept is consistently on the rise. Legacy applications are being accordingly modified and migrated to cloud environments (private, public, and hybrid). There is a bevy of enabling tools for cloud migration, integration, orchestration, brokerage, deployment, delivery, and management propping up the strategically relevant cloud journey. There are integrated processes, best practices, key guidelines, evaluation metrics, highly synchronized platforms, and so on to make the cloud idea penetrative, participative, and pervasive. Furthermore, there is a growing family of architectural and design patterns for producing optimized cloud environments and applications. This chapter...