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What is Cloud-Native?

An approach to building applications that fully exploit cloud computing advantages like scalability, resilience, and flexibility.

Cloud-native is a software development approach where applications are designed from the ground up to run in cloud environments. Key characteristics include microservices architecture, containerization, dynamic orchestration (Kubernetes), and DevOps automation. Cloud-native applications use immutable infrastructure, declarative APIs, and are designed for horizontal scaling. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) maintains the ecosystem of cloud-native open-source projects including Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and many others.

Related Terms

Kubernetes Service
An abstraction that provides a stable network endpoint for accessing a group of Pods, handling load balancing and service discovery.
CloudFormation
An AWS service that provisions and manages cloud resources using declarative JSON or YAML templates.
Kubernetes Namespace
A virtual cluster within a Kubernetes cluster that provides scope for names and enables resource isolation between teams or environments.
Cloud Function
A serverless compute service that runs code in response to events without requiring server management or infrastructure provisioning.
Kubernetes Pod
The smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes, consisting of one or more containers that share storage, network, and lifecycle.
Cloud Computing
The delivery of computing services over the internet, including servers, storage, databases, and software on demand.
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