A curious case of Deployment of Cloud Native Applications in DevOps Way…

What is cloud native application?

A Cloud Native (CN) application is designed for Cloud Computing Architecture, which are designed to within the framework of a Cloud Computing Software Model.

CN applications are collection of small, independent or loosely coupled services have the ability to rapidly build new applications, optimizing existing ones and collect them all.

The objective is Cloud Native is to deliver apps that user wants at the pace a business needs.

What is Cloud Native DevOps?

Cloud Native DevOps is a way to increase the velocity of your business and help Organizations to take the advantage of the automation and scalability that that cloud native technologies viz, containers, Kubernetes and RedHat OpenShift offers.

Cloud Native DevOps predominantly designed for

• Resiliency – Embracing failures rather than getting away from them
• Agility – Faster developments and quicker iterations
• Observability – Controlled way of monitoring application states
• Operability – Application Life Cycle process operability more intrinsic driven rather than relying on external processes

What is driving to implement Cloud Native DevOps?

• Cultural change – Motivation should be to run Cloud Native applications along with DevOps practice to align everyone with same tools and a common set of priorities.
• Collaboration to achieve common goal – to encourage developers and end users to have faster feedback loop to speed up application development and deployment.

Implementing Cloud Native DevOps

Implementing CN applications on Cloud is not a straight forward approach, it requires a holistic approach and set of tools and methodologies to meet the goal.

Below are certain salient features to be considered while implementing Cloud Native DevOps:

• No more monolithic way – Micro services should be the way forward
• Containerization – putting your software inside a container without worrying about underlying platform or system
• Container Orchestration – Use of Kubernetes or RedHat OpenShift would be the way
• CI/CD Pipelines – Meeting increasing automation using CI/CD pipelines
• Monitoring, Logging & Auditing – A way to exposing to determine what is going inside applications. Prometheus & Grafana help in Monitoring, Splunk, Elasticsearch, Fluentd & Kibana help in log aggregation while Open Tracing and Zipkin help in debugging applications.
• Culture – Cloud Native DevOps is no silver bullet. Adopting cloud native practices needs a cultural change where teams no longer work in silos. End-to-end automation of software delivery pipelines is only possible when there is an increased collaboration between development and IT operations team with a shared responsibility.

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