November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
4h 13m
English
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Chapter 1. What Is Cloud Native Infrastructure?
Infrastructure is all the software and hardware that support applications.1 This includes data centers, operating systems, deployment pipelines, configuration management, and any system or software needed to support the life cycle of applications.
Countless time and money has been spent on infrastructure. Through years of evolving the technology and refining practices, some companies have been able to run infrastructure and applications at massive scale and with renowned agility. Efficiently running infrastructure accelerates business by enabling faster iteration and shorter times to market.
Cloud native infrastructure is a requirement to effectively run cloud native applications. Without the right design and practices to manage infrastructure, even the best cloud native application can go to waste. Immense scale is not a prerequisite to follow the practices laid out in this book, but if you want to reap the rewards of the cloud, you should heed the experience of those who have pioneered these patterns.
Before we explore how to build infrastructure designed to run applications in the cloud, we need to understand how we got where we are. First, we’ll discuss the benefits of adopting cloud native practices. Next, we’ll look at a brief history of infrastructure and then discuss features of the next stage, called “cloud native,” and how it relates to your applications, the platform where it runs, and your business.
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