Moving from managing a physical network to configuring a cloud network requires a significant shift in your understanding of network concepts and the way you think about creating network connections. While many of the underlying ideas are the same—cloud networks still rely on routes, segmentation principles, and efficiently managed IP address spaces—the way you go about achieving your goals with a cloud network requires a more abstracted thought process.

Think about how cloud networking affects your understanding of network principles. What concepts are you having to rethink so that you can understand them in ways that will work in the cloud? In what areas are you seeing your preexisting knowledge serve you well as you’re learning about cloud networking?