At Container Solutions, when we say we help companies transform themselves into Cloud Native entities, we use that term for a very specific reason. Cloud Native is a major paradigm shift, not just the latest new tech to be bolted on top of whatever else a company has been doing for years. The last true paradigm shift was Agile, which arose 20 years ago and is still not finished. Few people [...]
There is a great deal of talk about the crucial role culture plays when a company undertakes a Cloud Native transformation. But what does that really mean, and why is it so important? Cloud Native is more than a tool set. It is a full architecture, a philosophical approach for building applications that take full advantage of cloud computing. In this context, culture is how individuals in [...]
Automated Infrastructure Got automation? If your enterprise is going Cloud Native, automation is a core requirement. The Automated Infrastructure pattern leads the way to this major step in the CN migration process. Perhaps your enterprise manages infrastructure using time-consuming manual processes. Or maybe you’ve “automated” things a bit with a collection of ad hoc scripts strung [...]
This post appears as part of a series of Cloud Native Transformation Patterns, which begins with Cloud Native Transformation Patterns: Introduction. These are condensed versions of the full patterns appearing the forthcoming book, Cloud Native Patterns: Architecture, Design and Culture, a joint project of Container Solutions and O'Reilly. Complete and in-depth information regarding each [...]
This post is one in a series of Cloud Native Transformation Patterns, which begins with Cloud Native Transformation Patterns: Introduction. Though a successful Cloud Native transformation requires commitment and buy-in from across the entire organisation, the work itself is not “all hands on deck.” Instead, a Core Team of engineers and architects is created to lead the transition. [...]
This post follows on from our first post on Cloud Native Transformation Patterns: Introduction and Cloud Native Transformation Patterns: Executive Commitment. As we saw from the previous post, Executive Commitment is a pattern that needs to be in place at the very start of any migration to the cloud. Cloud Native transformation requires significant changes throughout the entire organization, [...]
This post follows on from our first post on Cloud Native Transformation Patterns: Introduction. Cloud Native is best known for the collection of bleeding edge technologies it represents. However, many folk - especially those new to the architecture - fail to realize that there are human components that are equally crucial for Cloud Native success. One of these, Executive [...]
Cloud native architecture can practically endow software developers with superpowers by granting project velocity, scalability, increased security and reliability, even cost savings. An undeniably potent combination of capabilites -- but only if we use them correctly. As we explored previously in When is the Wrong Time to Use Kubernetes?, the desire to modernise infrastructure and go Cloud [...]
Docker and Kubernetes are undoubtedly the biggest names in Cloud Native infrastructure right now. But: are they competing technologies, or complementary ones? Do we need to worry about joining the right side? Is there risk here for enterprises, or is the war already won? If so, who won it? Some context for this query is in order. Three years ago, war was raging inside the data centre. By [...]
We began exploring the concept of basing good architecture upon cloud native patterns with “A Timeless Way of Building a Cloud Native System?”. Key takeaways were that every pattern fits into a larger scheme and that the set of patterns behind a cloud native architecture can form a clear way to describe the system. Cloud native patterns, thus, could become the much-needed shared language [...]
