Beginning Cloud Native Development with MicroProfile, Jakarta EE, and Kubernetes: Java DevOps for Building and Deploying Microservices-based Applications

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T. TelangBeginning Cloud Native Development with MicroProfile, Jakarta EE, and Kuberneteshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8832-0_2

2. Cloud-Native Application Development

Tarun Telang¹  

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Hyderabad, India

 

The term “cloud-native” has become ubiquitous in technology circles, but its meaning is still a bit nebulous. To get to the bottom of it, let’s start with what it is not: Cloud-native is not about where an application runs. It doesn’t matter if an app runs in a public cloud, private cloud, or an on-premises data center. What matters is how the app is built and run. In this chapter, you will start by exploring the meaning of cloud-native, the characteristics ...