What IS Cloud Native?

• Cloud-native systems are designed to embrace rapid change, large scale, and resilience
• CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation)
  • 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 that are resilient, manageable, and observable. Combined with robust automation, they allow engineers to make high-impact changes frequently and predictably with minimal toil
• Cloud-native systems
  • Run on cloud infrastructures
  • Make extensive use of Platform as a Service (PaaS)
  • Take full advantage of the cloud service model
• Twelve-Factor as a solid foundation for building cloud-native apps (see: The Twelve-Factor Application)

Containers In Cloud Native

• Containers are a great enabler of cloud-native software
• The Cloud Native Computing Foundation places microservice containerization as the first step in their Cloud-Native Trail Map

Links

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/cloud-native/introduction
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/cloud-native/definition