Cloud
Cloud has basically abstracted away the hardware parts. It is therefore become a major part of releasing software to actually understand cloud and being a good cloud user.
Infrastructure as Code
There are a lot of good resources to learn infra as code, and there are, w unfortunatly a lot of different ways to use infra as code (IaC). However, I think that Terraform is a good tool that works for most of the different types of cloud providers.
Azure
Leverages the Microsoft ecosystem to get customers. Aka, you already use Microsoft so why not just use cloud from Microsoft.
GCP
The little brother of the cloud providers. One big advantage is that you can leverage a lot of the google functionality as well.
AWS
The largest, and also the best of the bunch, in my opinion. But with some of the issues related to Amazon that probably never be resolved.
Virtual Networks
A Virtual Network, often abbreviated as VNet, is a logically isolated network within a cloud computing environment or your own on-premises data center. It enables you to control your own private space within the cloud, essentially acting as a slice of the cloud's overall network that you control.
Things to know:
DNS: DNS stands for Domain Name System. It's essentially the "phone book" of the internet, translating human-friendly domain names like www.google.com into IP addresses like 172.217.22.14 that computers use to identify each other on the network.
Cache: a cache is a high-speed, temporary storage layer that stores a subset of data, typically transient in nature so that future requests for that data are served up faster than by accessing the data's primary storage location.
Links
- On Cloud Computing Addiction (video) Cloud is a helluva drug.