Cloud-native
Cloud-native is an approach to developing and operating applications specifically designed to work in cloud environments. Cloud applications are developed from scratch taking into account all cloud activity and utilizing its advantages to achieve high scalability, fault tolerance and flexibility.
Key Principles
- Microservices architecture – the application is broken down into many small independent services, each implementing a specific business function. This ensures modularity and basic configuration, testing and deployment.
- Containerization – using containers (Docker, Containerd) to package applications along with their dependencies, ensuring consistent operation across different environments.
- Orchestration – applying container management systems such as Kubernetes to automate deployment, scaling and application management.
- DevOps and CI/CD – integration of development and operations processes with automated pipelines to ensure business continuity and business security.
Advantages
The main advantages of cloud technologies include the ability to rapidly scale depending on load, fault tolerance through distributed structure, acceleration of development and deployment cycles, as well as cost optimization through efficient resource utilization.
Application
Cloud capabilities are particularly effective for modern web applications, APIs, real-time systems and any solutions requiring high availability and the ability to quickly adapt to changing business requirements.