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Written By Billy Downing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is a Cloud Native Application? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Cloud native application development is the method of breaking down workloads into business logic processes which can then be abstracted from infrastructure, observed with granularity, and deployed rapidly. This does not necessarily mean cloud native applications are required to run as thousands of microservices on a Kubernetes cluster, nor does it even require the applications to be containerized. However, these methods of software packaging and orchestration do facilitate workloads to become separated from their underlying infrastructure and ran anywhere so long as the agreed upon open standards are adhered to. Containerized applications being orchestrated through Kubernetes allows workloads to be quickly deployed in several environments including public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid architectures while affording control of the application environment to the developer (segregation through network policies and namespaces, load balancing through ingress and services, dynamic storage provisioning through class and persistent volume claims, etc). For a clear picture of Cloud Native check out the CNCF definition as well at https:\/\/github.com\/cncf\/toc\/blob\/master\/DEFINITION.md<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Cloud, and why should our applications live there?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0NIST Defines the five key attributes of a cloud as On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, and Measured Service (https:\/\/csrc.nist.gov\/projects\/cloud-computing<\/a>) These characteristics do not define location or tool sets, however do provide the functional requirements of what is necessary to deploy a cloud environment. In the situation of cloud native application development on-prem it becomes the responsibility of the operations team to deploy these attributes in an environment from the perspective of the developer. The developer must have the means for on-demand self-service in provisioning infrastructure to support and deploy their software, with the remaining attributes handled for them without intervention. This provides the benefit of focusing on the business logic of the application and less emphasis on the underlying infrastructure. However, in order for the support components to become sufficiently abstracted away a few things must happen:<\/span><\/p>\n