Private cloud
Private cloud applies cloud operating practices — self-service, metering, automation, policy — to infrastructure the organisation keeps in its own facilities.
Private cloud capabilities may include:
- Virtualised infrastructure
- Self-service provisioning
- Resource pools
- Infrastructure automation
- Container platforms
- Software-defined networking
- Software-defined storage
- Centralised monitoring
- Usage metering
- Policy-based governance
Hybrid cloud
The hard part of hybrid is consistency: one identity model, one set of security controls and one view of monitoring across environments that behave differently.
Hybrid cloud design should address:
- Secure connectivity
- Identity federation
- Data movement
- Workload placement
- Backup integration
- Monitoring across environments
- Common security controls
- Configuration consistency
- Cost allocation
- Disaster recovery
Container platforms
A container platform is infrastructure that must be sized, backed up, monitored and upgraded like any other, not just a developer tool.
Container infrastructure may include:
- Container orchestration
- Cluster design
- Control-plane redundancy
- Worker-node sizing
- Image repositories
- Secrets management
- Persistent storage
- Service discovery
- Ingress
- Logging
- Monitoring
- Backup
- Upgrade management