Summary

In this chapter, we introduced you to cloud computing by showing you some of the most important concepts, tools, and solutions used. This should be enough for you to start learning about cloud technologies. This subject is very large, complex, and intimidating.

We talked about cloud standards, an important and largely overlooked subject, and about the main cloud types and services. You now have an idea what each as-a-service solution means and what the main differences are between them. You know what the most important solutions are and how they are provided by the main players in this field: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. We introduced you to container orchestration with Kubernetes, and you know what OpenStack is and how it works. You learned about APIs and minimal container-specialized operating systems and about the DevOps culture, microservices, and infrastructure automation tools. You learned a lot in this chapter, but keep in mind that all these subjects have only...