Distributed Cloud: Reference Architecture Design

Hybrid and multi-cloud are already powerful, but they cannot solve some problems such as interoperability, portability, and inconsistency. Moreover, the central controller of the Distributed Cloud suggested by Gartner is bound to a cloud provider, thus cannot solve the problems of Vendor-Locking and operation/integration neutrality issues, etc. This book proposes a different architecture that takes a single central control point, OneCenter, residing anywhere. OneCenter is independent and not bound to any cloud provider. OneCenter manages geo-distributed infrastructures from any providers in a neutral, consistent, and unified approach globally. About the Book This book proposes a new creative architecture with four essential layers including infrastructure, abstraction, resource, and workload layer. First, this architecture elaborates a versatile OneCenter, depicts the concept of an elastic distributed site, and expands the scope of intelligent scheduling/provisioning of computing, networking, and storage resources to cloud, on-premises, and telco edge computing worldwide. Second, this book designs a new modern big data platform and a scalable distributed conference edge computing platform based on the Distributed Cloud architecture natively. Finally, this book also presents some new innovative points of cloud architecture such as the talent VDC and GVPC. Those are advantages and features that all conventional cloud platforms lack and are also the future development trend of cloud computing. About the Technology In the Distributed Cloud, OneCenter leverages SD-WAN, VXLAN, EVPN, and OVN's advanced routing, connection, stitching, extension, and multi-tenant capacities to implement the GVPC for inner and inter-site communication. Unified Resource Manager is used to manage and orchestrate the diverse heterogeneous underlying infrastructures to implement the unified Bare Metal, Virtual Machine, and Container workload across geo-distributed sites worldwide. OneStorage is implemented with an efficient multi-tier block storage system and integrates multiple S3-compatible globally available object storage systems to meet customers' compliance, costs, and business requirements. OneData greatly benefits from the modern data architecture with Hybrid Data Mesh and Data Fabric architecture. Besides, Telco edge computing is also involved to innovate and empower edge computing in the Distributed Cloud.