Cloud Native for the Enterprise

Adopting DevOps and Cloud Native Culture

Developers are excited by the prospect of using cloud native technologies to build the next generation of hyperscale applications and services. You can find a great definition of cloud native in this New Stack article:

Cloud-native is a term used to describe container-based environments. Cloud-native technologies are used to develop applications built with services packaged in containers, deployed as microservices and managed on elastic infrastructure through agile DevOps processes and continuous delivery workflows.

As cloud native technologies and services evolve, the original definition can now be extended to include a range of technologies not strictly related to container, such as serverless and streaming (Azure cloud native, Oracle cloud native, and Amazon Web Services cloud native). Cloud native technologies address specific problems related to designing, building, and managing services that meet the requirements of modern cloud services: scalability, manageability, and reliability. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a consortium with members from the open source community, startups, enterprises, and major public cloud providers, notes that

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.

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