Managing Hybrid Clouds
In the previous chapters, we covered cloud infrastructure fundamentals, common threats in cloud environments, and how to engage with cloud providers. In this chapter, we will discuss hybrid clouds.
A hybrid cloud is a combination of an on-premises data center or private cloud and a public cloud environment. It is considered an extension of our local data center and we must keep this in mind as we take the necessary steps to manage, maintain, and secure our infrastructure and services across the entire hybrid solution.
We are not only extending our local data center infrastructure to the cloud but also extending our security boundaries to the cloud, so we wish to have a central way to control security operations in a hybrid architecture.
In the following diagram, we can see an example of a hybrid architecture, based on Azure:
- A Customer is connecting from the public internet and reaches Azure Front Door, as both a global DNS service and a global...