A cloud-native application is one that wholly embraces the traits and behavior of a Cloud platform, independently of its underlying infrastructure. Such applications are effectively highly scalable and operate in a resilient and consistent manner throughout its lifecycle.
Let us take a dive into this definition. A Cloud platform is one that operates over or is built into a Cloud infrastructure. Cloud Foundry, as described in Chapter 1, is such a platform that offers the benefits of the orchestration of containers over a number of cells (Virtual Machines), which offers the capability for application scaling, resiliency, and consistency. Application/horizontal scaling enables efficient leveraging of resources on an infrastructure, in a way that application instances could be scaled up or down to cater for varying levels of incoming traffic loads...
