The Load Balancing Multi and Hybrid Cloud Solutions Journey explores load balancing in high availability, agnostic server/cloud, or multi-cloud platform. High availability topics run through each of the learning paths and are mentioned within each topic's context. We discuss different load balancing strategies for traditional, cloud, and multi-cloud deployments during this learning journey. Later, we will discuss popular load balancing technologies, vendors, and design patterns.
This LearningKit with more than 13 hours of learning is divided into three tracks:
Course content
Track 1: Multi-cloud Load Balancing Principles
In this track, the focus will be on load balancing in multi-cloud and CloudOps, hybrid and multi-cloud architecture load balancing design, hybrid and multi-cloud management considerations, and security and privacy considerations in load balancing.
Courses (7 hours +):
Multi-cloud Load Balancing: Principles of Load Balancing
Course: 1 Hour, 30 Minutes
- Course Overview
- Load Balancing Uses
- Evolution of Load Balancing
- Types of Modern Load Balancing
- Features of Modern Load Balancers
- Load Balancer Topologies
- Layer 4 Load Balancing
- Layer 7 Load Balancing
- Cloud Load Balancers
- Multi and Hybrid Cloud Deployments
- Load Balancing across Clouds
- Implementing Network Load Balancing at Layer
- Implementing Application Load Balancing at Layer
- Course Summary
Multi-cloud Load Balancing: Load Balancing Design Strategies
Course: 1 Hour, 30 Minutes
- Course Overview
- Design Pattern Theory
- Network Design Concepts
- Network Design Methodology
- Load Balancer Topologies
- Task Distribution Schemes
- Capacity Planning
- Load Balancing Considerations
- Load Balancing Best Practices
- Load Balancing Methods
- Implementing Network Load Balancing at Layer
- Implementing Application Load Balancing at Layer
- Using Application Request Routing
- Course Summary
Multi-cloud Load Balancing: Designing Multi & Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Course: 1 Hour, 24 Minutes
- Course Overview
- Cloud Architectures
- Cloud Architecture Challenges and Opportunities
- Hybrid or Multi-Cloud Implementation Planning
- Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Design Patterns
- Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Network Topologies
- Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Topology Best Practices
- Disaster Recovery Planning Using Load Balancers
- Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architecture
- DNS-based Load Balancer Traffic Routing
- Designing a Multi-Cloud Architecture
- Designing a Hybrid Cloud Architecture
- Designing a Disaster Recovery Network Architecture
- Course Summary
Session Management in Multi-cloud & Hybrid Cloud Environments
Course: 1 Hour, 13 Minutes
- Course Overview
- Session Management for HTTP Requests
- Load Balancing Sessions
- Load Balancing in Multi-cloud and Hybrid Cloud
- Session Management with URL Rewriting
- Session Management with Cookies
- Identity Management with JSON Web Tokens
- Multi-cloud Solutions
- Service Meshes and Sessions
- Identity Management with Multi-cloud
- Identity Management with Hybrid Cloud
- Identity Fabric in Multi-cloud Environments
- Course Summary
Considerations in Load Balancing: Multi-cloud Security Management
Course: 1 Hour, 17 Minutes
- Course Overview
- Shared Responsibility Model
- Multi-cloud Security
- Cloud Security Challenges
- Creating a Virtual Network in Azure
- Multi-cloud Security Challenges
- Challenges When Moving to the Cloud
- Resiliency in the Cloud
- Cloud Security Failure
- Cloud Disaster Recovery
- Hybrid Cloud Visibility and Control
- Course Summary
Considerations in Load Balancing: Multi-cloud Data & Privacy Management
Course: 56 Minutes
- Course Overview
- Multi-cloud Data Privacy
- Hybrid Cloud Data Protection
- Hybrid Cloud Data Integrity and Availability
- Multi-cloud Disaster Recovery
- Hybrid Cloud Security
- Multi-cloud Authentication
- Federated Cloud
- Course Summary
Assessment:
- Multi-Cloud Load Balancing Principles
Track 2: Solutions for Multi-Cloud Load Balancing
In this track, the focus will be on disaster and backup strategies with multi-cloud load balancing, working with load balancing and performance monitoring, load balancing strategies with Docker and Kubernetes, and comparing multi-cloud load balancing solution providers.
Courses (6 hours +)
Multi-cloud Load Balancing: Disaster Backup & Recovery
Course: 1 Hour, 20 Minutes
- Course Overview
- History of Disaster Backup and Recovery
- DBAR Cloud Load Balancing Strategies
- DBAR Responsibilities in the Cloud
- Azure Data Backup Strategy
- Backing up Data in Azure
- AWS Data Backup Strategy
- Backing up Data in AWS
- GCP Data Backup Strategy
- Backing up Data in GCP
- DBAR Challenges in the Cloud
- Load Balancing in Multi-cloud
- DBAR Load Balancing in Multi-cloud
- Course Summary
Solutions for Multi-cloud Load Balancing: Load Balancing with Docker
Course: 1 Hour, 32 Minutes
- Course Overview
- What Is Docker
- Docker vs. Traditional Deployments
- Docker Components
- Docker Objects
- Installing Docker
- Working with Docker Swarm
- Microservices and Load Balancing
- Docker Load Balancing Challenges
- Fully Managed vs. Self-managed Services
- Docker Load Balancing Scenarios
- Docker Load Balancing across Global Networks
- Configuring Load Balancing with Docker Swarm
- Configuring Load Balancing Using Nginx
- Course Summary
Solutions for Multi-cloud Load Balancing: Load Balancing Kubernetes Solutions
Course: 1 Hour, 55 Minutes
- Course Overview
- What Is Kubernetes
- Kubernetes vs. Traditional Deployments
- Kubernetes Clustering
- Kubernetes Components
- Kubernetes Objects
- Kubernetes Clustering and Load Balancing Challenges
- Kubernetes Services
- Kubernetes Networking and Load Balancing
- Kubernetes Ingress and Load Balancing
- Installing Kubernetes
- Bootstrapping a Kubernetes Cluster
- Managing Kubernetes Pod Distribution
- Applying Kubernetes Network Policies
- Configuring Kubernetes Ingress
- Course Summary
Comparing Multi-cloud Load Balancing Solutions: Load Balancer Vendors
Course: 44 Minutes
- Course Overview
- Hardware Load Balancers
- Hardware Load Balancer Providers
- Virtual Load Balancers
- Virtual Load Balancer Providers
- Cloud-based Load Balancers
- Cloud-based Load Balancer Providers
- Load Balancers and Failover
- Course Summary
Solutions for Multi-Cloud Load Balancing: Multi-cloud Performance Monitoring
Course: 1 Hour, 17 Minutes
- Course Overview
- Importance of Performance Monitoring
- Performance Challenges of Multi-cloud
- Performance Monitoring on a Multi-cloud Platform
- Load Balancers and Performance Management
- Application Performance Data from Load Balancers
- Multi-Cloud Overload and Fail-Overs
- Configuring Azure for Geographic Routing
- Load Balancer Metrics
- Efficient Load Balancing in Multi-cloud
- Publishing Metrics with CloudWatch
- Monitoring Metrics with CloudWatch
- Course Summary
Assessment:
- Solutions for Multi-Cloud Load Balancing
