Cloud native - what it means and why it matters?

Cloud native is a broad term which makes use of different techniques, such as infrastructure automation, developing middleware, and backing services, which are basically a part of your application delivery cycle. The cloud native approach includes frequent software releases that are bug-free and stable, and can scale the application as per the business requirement.

Using the cloud native approach, you will be able to achieve your goal toward application building in a systematic manner.

The cloud native approach is much better than the legacy virtualization-oriented orchestration, which needs a lot of effort to build an environment suitable for development, and then, a far more different one for the software delivery process. An ideal cloud native architecture should have automation and composition functionalities, which work on your behalf. These automation techniques should also be able to manage and deploy your application across different platforms and provide you with results.

There are a couple of other operation factors that your cloud native architecture should be able to identify, such as steady logging, monitoring application and infrastructure in order to make sure the application is up and running.

The cloud native approach really helps developers build their application across different platforms using tools such as Docker, which is lightweight and easy to create and destroy.