Cloud Native microservices

Now that we have a better understanding of cloud computing, we need to think why we should build Cloud Native microservices. If we have been following our microservices principles, we could easily deploy them in a cloud and take advantage of those platforms to benefit further from the microservices architecture. Our microservices could easily be scaled and managed, and since their isolation is a loosely coupling, they could easily fit in containers.

When we create microservices, we could make them cloud aware, and try to benefit from not just being microservices, but becoming Cloud Native applications, so they could fully benefit from the cloud computing model. Spring Cloud provides an easy to use the framework to make our cloud services independent of the cloud platform that they are hosted on and take the full benefits of the platform.

We will expand this further in Chapter 6, Creating Cloud-Native Microservices.