Cloud-native platforms and considerations
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) defines a cloud-native infrastructure as one with “microservices, service meshes, infrastructure as code, containers, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs” as typical characteristics. We have already looked at the application basics that support embracing cloud-native infrastructure by moving from monolithic to microservices-based architecture. In this section, we will look at the other key cloud-native characteristics of infrastructure:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): By describing our infrastructure resources as code, they can therefore be stored in source control systems. IaC tools utilize a declarative language to describe the desired state and have the operational knowledge to know how the desired state can be reached.
- Immutable infrastructure: This states that infrastructure is provisioned in such a way that it cannot be modified once it’s running. Therefore...
