Cloud Native architectures
In the first two chapters, we’ve already covered the definition of Cloud Native. Let’s check it one more time for a quick recap.
Cloud Native
This is an approach to building and running applications on modern, dynamic infrastructures such as clouds. It emphasizes application workloads with high resiliency, scalability, a high degree of automation, ease of management, and observability.
Yet, despite the presence of the word cloud, a Cloud Native application is not strictly required to run in the cloud. It’s an approach that can be followed when building and running applications also on-premises. And yes—you can also build resilient, scalable, highly automated applications on-premises that are Cloud Native, albeit not running in the cloud.
It is important to understand that simply picking a well-known public cloud provider and building on top of its service offerings (whether IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, or FaaS) does not mean your...
