Cloud Native

Cloud native computing foundation (CNCF)

• Look at the Sandbox, Incubating and Graduated projects
• Cloud Native Trail Map
• CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape

Cloud native technologies empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure and declarative APIs exemplify this approach.

These techniques enable loosely coupled systems (connected with APIs) that are resilient, manageable and observable. Combined with robust automation, they allow engineers to make high-impact changes frequently and predictably with minimal toil.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation seeks to drive adoption of this paradigm by fostering and sustaining an ecosystem of open source, vendor neutral projects. We democratize state-of-the-art patterns to make these innovations accessible for everyone.

Cloud Native Concepts

Speed and Agility

• Among many things, cloud native is about speed and agility
• Users want...
  • Instantaneous responsiveness
  • Up-to-the-minute features
  • No downtime
• The business wants...
  • Accelerated innovation
  • Rapid releases of features to meet disruption from competitors
  • Increased confidence - stability/performance

Application Architecture

Mentality: Pets vs Cattle

• Infrastructure becomes immutable and disposable
• Provisioned in minutes and destroyed on demand
• Never updated or repaired but re-provisioned

Cloud Native Trail Map

• Breaks the journey into measurable objectives
• Achieve step 1 by December
• Set key performance indicators
• Measurable values