Managing the base infrastructure

After we have defined and deployed a landing zone in a public cliud platform, there are quite a number of building blocks that we will have to manage from that point onward. In this section we will discuss how we can manage these building blocks. Firstly, we need to be able to connect to the landing zone and that requires connectivity.

Implement and manage connectivity

One of the most used technologies is the VPN, the Virtual Private Network. In essence, a VPN is a tunnel using the internet as a carrier. It connects from a certain IP address or IP range to the IP address of a gateway server in the public cloud.

Before we get into this, you have to be aware of what a public cloud is. If you as a business deploy services in Azure, AWS, GCP, Alibaba Cloud or any other public cloud you are extending your data center to that cloud. It therefore needs a connection between your data center and that extension in the public cloud. The easiest and probably also...