The OAM personas
We’ve touched upon OAM specifications several times throughout this book. We will refresh the same topic from the perspective of organizational structure. We will take some inspiration from the OAM model to organize the platform and its ecosystem. OAM proposes the following three personas to deploy and manage cloud-native applications:
- Application developer: Concentrates on application development, keeping the entire emphasis on developing features that add value to customers directly.
- Application operator: Offloads the complexity of configuring the applications in the cloud-native ecosystem from application developers. Enables the application development team to move faster with feature development. Application operators contribute to the end consumer indirectly.
- Infrastructure operator: Offloads the complexity of configuring the cloud, other infrastructure, and services across the organization. It allows the application operator to focus on...
