cloud nativity is a set of cloud technology product system based on distributed deployment and unified transportation, and container, microservice, DevOps and other technologies.

cloud native past lives

The term cloud native has a long history, and cloud native began to appear in the audience's sight on a large scale, which has a great relationship with the concept of cloud native application proposed by Pivotal (acquired by VMvare). When we talk about cloud nativity now, we mean not only some specific technologies, but also a set of methodologies and technical systems, which is a kind of culture.

in 213, Matt Stine of p>Pivotal Company first proposed the concept of Cloud Native, and in 215, he defined several characteristics that conform to the cloud native architecture in his book "Migrating to Cloud Native Application Architecture". In 217, Pivotal outlined the definition of cloud nativity in its official website as four characteristics: DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices and containers, which also became the basic impression of many people on Cloud Native.

In p>215, the Linux Foundation launched the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and the establishment of the CNCF Foundation marked the official entry of Cloud Native into a high-speed development track. Many major companies such as Google, Cisco and Docker joined in, gradually building specific tools around Cloud Native, and the concept of Cloud Native gradually became more concrete.

cloud nativity is not only a set of technical system, but in essence, any behavior or way that can improve the utilization rate of resources and the efficiency of application delivery on the cloud is cloud nativity, which is a set of application design methodology that conforms to the development trend of cloud computing.

Kubernetes started the prelude of cloud nativity, and the emergence of service grid Istio led to micro-services in the post-Kubernetes era. The rise of serverless made cloud nativity advance from infrastructure layer to application architecture layer, and we are in a new era of cloud nativity.

in the future, the cloud native will be closely integrated with the computing power network. Applications do not need to know the required computing power, the resource pool, the required network bandwidth, etc., but only need to pay attention to business requirements, and resources, scheduling locations, network requirements, etc. will automatically realize cost optimization, realize the intelligent arrangement of computing power and network, and finally achieve the computing network native.