Cloud-native principles
I am sure you have heard the words cloud native many times, even before picking up this book. Maybe hearing those words was what made you choose to read this book. Let us now carefully examine the principles of cloud native.
Cloud native is driven by four different features, which are as follows:
- Microservices
- Containers and orchestration
- DevOps
- Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
We will discuss each of these features in more detail in this chapter, but you have to realize we can only scratch the surface here. Each of them deserves a book in its own right, and in fact, you can find books from Packt Publishing on these subjects.
Microservices
While it is not a requirement to run microservices in the cloud, most cloud-native applications are in fact microservices. We have already come across the term microservices in the book a few times, but let’s look at a definition first.
Microservices is an...
