World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024 • Session details

Embracing the Hybrid Cloud: Unlocking Success with Ansible

Alex Soto

Containers made runtimes portable; now make your network portable. Discover how Skupper and Ansible automate secure, cross-cloud communication without the headache of complex VPNs or firewalls.

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The necessity of hybrid cloud architectures

Large enterprises spread workloads across multiple public clouds and on-premise environments to maximize computing resources.

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Traditional hybrid cloud connectivity challenges

Public IP networking, manual virtual private networks, and proprietary cloud services introduce severe maintenance burdens and vendor lock-in.

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Introducing Skupper for application connectivity

Skupper operates as an abstraction proxy providing secure layer seven networking without requiring complex firewall rule modifications.

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How Skupper routes traffic across clusters

Virtual services and proxies tunnel traffic over an AMQP protocol to seamlessly connect disjointed physical data centers.

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Configuring Skupper manually via CLI

Developers utilize simple command-line workflows to initialize secure tokens and explicitly expose private database deployments.

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Automating Skupper deployments using Ansible

Infrastructure-as-code techniques allow developers to manage large cluster inventories effortlessly through automated deployment playbooks.

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Live demo connecting AWS and GCP clusters

An Ansible deployment playbook spins up a backend service on Google Cloud Platform that successfully queries an isolated AWS database.

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Key benefits of layer seven network portability

Running layer seven abstraction platforms grants teams developer autonomy and zero-code network portability with built-in encryption.

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Configuring Skupper networks in four standard steps

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Introducing Skupper for layer seven network abstraction

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Orchestrating application deployments using remote cloud hardware

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Executing a live multicloud routing demonstration

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