Chapter 7: Building a Cloud-Native Application on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Software development methodologies have changed a lot in the last two decades. Containers and microservices-based software development have taken the front seat. It has not only set foot in the startup world, but also expanded into large enterprises. Enterprises that were previously hesitant to look at this new model of building applications are now beginning to learn this and are changing their method of software delivery. Large IT enterprises are developing their own solutions for a hybrid model; that is, their solution not only caters to the on-premises software model, but is scaling to cloud-based models as well – they are being delivered as containers and being orchestrated using container orchestration services such as Kubernetes.

OCI provides Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, or OKE for short, which is a fully managed service that's highly scalable, highly available, and secure...