- A/B Testing
- Agile
- Automation
- Blue/Green Deployment
- Build
- Canary Release
- Chaos Engineering
- CI/CD
- Cloud-Native
- Code Review
- Configuration Management
- Container
- Continuous Testing
- DevOps Culture
- Docker
- Environment
- Feedback Loop
- Idempotence
- Immutable Infrastructure
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Microservices
- Monitoring
- Pipeline
- Post-Mortem Analysis
- Provisioning
- Release
- Repository (Repo)
- Rollback
- Scalability
- Shift Left
- Smoke Testing
- Source Code Management (SCM)
- Vagrant
- Version Control
- Virtual Machine
Cloud-Native refers to the practice of building, deploying, and running applications that take full advantage of cloud computing benefits. It emphasizes scalability, resilience, automation, and agility, leveraging containers, microservices, and serverless and continuous delivery practices. Cloud-Native fosters innovation, adaptability, and cost-effectiveness, leveraging platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and tools like Kubernetes, Docker, and Istio, transforming software, data, and business landscapes in the digital age.
Use Cases
Microservices Architecture
- Objective: To decompose applications into loosely coupled, independently deployable services.
- Scope: Ideal for complex, evolving applications requiring rapid updates and scalability.
- Advantage: Enables continuous delivery and fault isolation, making the application agile and resilient.
Container Orchestration
- Objective: To manage the lifecycle of containers in large, dynamic environments.
- Scope: Critical in systems that need to efficiently scale, distribute, and manage containerized applications.
- Advantage: Ensures optimal resource utilization, high availability, and automated deployments.
Serverless Computing
- Objective: To execute functions in response to events without managing servers.
- Scope: Suited for event-driven architectures, periodic tasks, or microservices.
- Advantage: Reduces operational overhead and cost, auto-scales based on demand, and improves time-to-market.
Continuous Deployment
- Objective: To automate the end-to-end process from code commit to production release.
- Scope: Integral for teams seeking rapid, reliable software releases.
- Advantage: Enhances speed, reliability, and quality, enabling fast iterations and user feedback loops.
Multi-Cloud Strategy
- Objective: To deploy applications across multiple cloud providers for redundancy, cost optimization, or performance.
- Scope: Useful for large-scale, mission-critical applications requiring high availability and geographic distribution.
- Advantage: Mitigates vendor lock-in, optimizes cost, and enhances performance and resilience.