Winning the Hybrid Cloud

Most disaster recovery sites sit idle, wasting money. This talk presents a new model: a failover cluster that costs nearly nothing until it's actually needed.

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Defining the modern hybrid cloud environment

Hybrid cloud combines public clouds, private clouds, and on-premises data centers to create a unified, interconnected infrastructure.

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Core principles for an effective open hybrid cloud

An open hybrid cloud should provide a consistent user experience, deployment flexibility, choice of tools, and risk reduction through resilience.

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Key advantages of a hybrid cloud strategy

Adopting a hybrid cloud strategy provides significant benefits like automated disaster recovery, lower latency for users, and data sovereignty compliance.

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Connecting Kubernetes clusters securely with Skupper

Skupper is a Layer 7 service interconnect that securely connects Kubernetes clusters across different clouds and regions without requiring VPNs or special firewall rules.

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Demonstrating automated failover with Skupper

A live demonstration shows how Skupper automatically reroutes traffic from a failed service in a GCP cluster to a backup instance in an AWS cluster.

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Configuring Skupper for multi-cluster communication

Skupper is configured using simple CLI commands to initialize clusters and link them with a security token, and it also supports a declarative YAML approach for GitOps workflows.

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Managing hybrid cloud costs with serverless and Knative

Knative enables a serverless approach on Kubernetes, allowing services to scale down to zero when inactive to significantly reduce costs in a multi-cluster environment.

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Demonstrating Knative's scale-to-zero and scale-up capabilities

This demo shows a Knative service automatically scaling down to zero pods when idle and then scaling up from zero and to multiple instances under load.

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Handling stateful applications with CockroachDB

A complete solution combines Skupper and Knative, and a final example shows how to manage stateful applications like a database with CockroachDB across clouds for data resilience.