Software Architect's Handbook

Dynamically orchestrated

Making your application containerized is not enough. A cloud-native application will need the ability to run multiple containers across multiple machines. That is what will allow you to use microservices and to provide the fault tolerance capabilities.

Once you have multiple containers running on different machines, you will need to dynamically orchestrate them. The system must start the correct container at the right time, be able to scale containers by adding and removing them based on demand, and launch containers on different machines in the event of a failure.

There are a number of container clustering and orchestration tools available. Currently, the most popular is Kubernetes, which is sometimes referred to ...