Introduction to Cloud Native
Cloud-native refers to the set of practices that empowers an organization to build and manage applications at scale. They can achieve this goal by using these cloud providers
- Private Cloud
- Hybrid Cloud
- Public Cloud
Containers are closely associated with cloud-native terminology. Containers are used to run a single application with all required dependencies. The main characteristics of containers are easy to manage, deploy, and fast to recover. As such, often, a microservice-based architecture is chosen in tandem with cloud-native tooling.
Microservices are used to manage and configure a collection of small, independent services that can be easily packaged and executed within a container.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Cloud Native Tooling
Kubernetes had its first initial release in 2014 and it derives from Borg, a Google open-source container orchestrator.
Currently, Kubernetes is part of CNCF or Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
CNCF was founded in 2015, and it provides a vendor-neutral home to open-source projects such as
Overall, Kubernetes is a container orchestrator that is capable to solutionize the integration of the following functionalities:
- Runtime
- Networking
- Storage
- Service Mesh
- Logs and metrics
- Tracing
and many more
Stakeholders
There are two main perspectives to address: business and technical stakeholders.
From a business perspective, the adoption of cloud-native tooling represents:
- Agility - perform strategic transformations
- Growth - quickly iterate on customer feedback
- Service availability - ensures the product is available to customers 24/7
From a technical perspective, the adoption of cloud-native tooling represents:
- Automation - release a service without human intervention
- Orchestration - introduce a container orchestrator to manage thousands of services with minimal effort
- Observability - ability to independently troubleshoot and debug each component
Tools, Environment & Dependencies
FRONT-END FRAMEWORKS & LIBRARIES
BACK-END
Environment & Dependencies
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