Название: Cloud-Native Data Center Networking: Architecture, Protocols, and Tools (Early Release)
Автор: Dinesh G. Dutt
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2019
Страниц: 190
Язык: английский
Формат: epub, pdf (conv)
Размер: 10.1 MB

This is a book about making data centers work well by creating in them a robust, scalable network infrastructure. So if you’re a network architect or network operator looking to understand, build, or validate your thinking about data centers, this book is for you. If you’re a data center operator responsible for not just the network, but also compute and storage, and you’re looking to get up to speed on the current thinking in network design of data centers, this book is for you. And if you’re a network developer looking to find information that’s scattered or is oral knowledge only, this book is for you.

More specifically, this book is about the design of a specific kind of data center network, the cloud-native kind. If you search online for “cloud-native”, you’ll find that it’s typically associated with a specific kind of application design—microservices—and on a specific operating system—Linux—and that it relies on a lot of open source code. But those are means. The ends are about building robust, agile, scalable applications that allow the business to keep pace in a fast moving world.

I picked the term cloud-native to focus on the same ends in creating a network. You may not be building a network that scales to the the size of Amazon or Google, but I assume that you want to build a network that has these characteristics: affordable, high-capacity, easy to manage, agile, and reliable. That’s a lot of adjectives, but I hope to touch upon all of these areas before we’re done.

And the book is not just for people deploying microservices-based applications. As hip as that is along with Kubernetes, building a reliable and predictable network is something everybody aspires to, whether you’re doing containers or virtual machines or using bare metal servers.