Cloud-Native Methods: DevOps, Microservices and Kubernetes

The beginning of this article talked about the development of DevOps and its relationship with cloud-native. Next, I talked about using DevOps in enterprise cloud native. Finally, talk about the challenges of implementing DevOps in native cloud applications.

DevOps practices have long penetrated modern application architectures. DevOps practices have helped developers and engineers create a space to build a new way to optimize resources and extend applications through continuous delivery practices.

Cloud-native technology makes microservices architectures more practical and adaptive than composite or single environments through efficient containers. When building cloud-based, microservice-based applications, organizers are turning to DevOps principles. This combination of DevOps and cloud-native architectures is helping organizers implement streamlined lean product development processes to continuously adapt to rapidly changing markets and achieve their business goals.

Cloud native applications use DevOps

Cloud-native applications are based on a set of loosely coupled components or microservices. Most of these components or microservices run in containers and are managed by orchestration engines such as Kubernetes. However, in serverless architectures, they also started to function as a set of decentralized functions. Developers and design teams define services or functions, then continue to build, and finally are rebuilt and improved by more and more cross-functional teams. Nowadays, O&M pays little attention to infrastructure construction, and focuses more on applications running on lightweight workloads. This synergy creates a more efficient automated process.

In fact, some people think that unless DevOps has been practiced before, the application is not really a cloud-native application because the cloud-native architecture is built for web-scale computing. DevOps professionals need to build, deploy and manage a secure, resilient and high-performance declarative infrastructure. It is not feasible to use traditional siloed methods to meet these requirements.

In order to achieve success in DevOps, companies must consciously build cloud-native applications. Only when the business team is willing to invest in DevOps practice, an organized transformation that puts DevOps into practice will happen-the transformation changes with the consistency of the product team in application development. In short, these teams created an environment for continuous improvement of technology development, making it a lean and streamlined workflow, reflecting the continuous delivery process based on DevOps principles.
The transformation needed for cloud-native DevOps
For organizations that use container orchestration technology, the direction of the product is defined by developing a microservice architecture. This is only possible if the organizer understands how DevOps and the continuous development process can create applications that are ultimately useful to users.

The challenge is this: you must ensure that your organization is ready to change the way all members of the product team work together. Ultimately, DevOps is a story about why you want to streamline lean product development in the first place—for the same reason you switched to microservices architecture on Kubernetes.

The traditional DevOps model before the advent of containers required different processes and workflows. Container technology is built from the perspective of DevOps. The functionality provided by abstract containers affects how we view DevOps, because with the advent of microservices, traditional architecture development will change. This means following the best practices for running containers on Kubernetes, and the practice of extending DevOps to GitOps and SecOps.

Please continue reading this series of articles to learn more about how DevOps practices and patterns evolve into a cloud-native architecture, and how Kubernetes makes DevOps easier for enterprises to implement.