Summary
Overall, this chapter provided a comprehensive overview of cloud architecture and the key components that are essential for building a successful cloud environment.
In this chapter, we explored two crucial topics in cloud computing: essential cloud infrastructure components and an overview of virtualization and containerization.
We began by discussing the essential components of cloud infrastructure, which are the building blocks that enable the functioning of cloud services. These components include physical data centers, virtualization and hypervisors, networking, storage, security, management and orchestration, monitoring and analytics, disaster recovery and backup, and compliance and governance. Each component plays a vital role in supporting the operations and capabilities of cloud environments.
Next, we delved into the concept of virtualization, which involves creating virtual instances of hardware, storage, and network resources. We explored how virtualization...
