Cloud native environments are essential for modern businesses. Learn what components help build out cloud native and its benefits.
On: May 25, 2023
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To stay competitive, companies must adjust and adapt their technology stack to accelerate their digital transformation. This means engineering teams now experience exponential data growth that is starting to outgrow underlying infrastructure. That requires durable infrastructure that can support rapid data growth and high availability. With cloud native architecture, companies can meet all their availability requirements and effectively store data in real time.
So what is cloud native? Well, cloud native is an approach to build and run applications that takes full advantage of cloud computing technology. If something is “cloud native,” then it is designed and coded to run on a cloud architecture at the start of the application development process like Kubernetes.
At its core, cloud native is about designing applications as a collection of microservices, each of which can be deployed independently and scaled horizontally to meet demand. This allows for greater flexibility because developers can update specific services as needed, instead of updating the entire application.
Such agility lets engineering teams rapidly deploy and update applications through agile development, containers and orchestration. It also provides improved scalability because teams can easily spin up containers in response to traffic demand, which maximizes resource usage and reduces cost. Additionally, applications that are distributed across multiple servers or nodes means that one component’s failure does not bring down the entire system.
The four basic cloud native components
Before your organization implements any sort of cloud native architecture, it’s important to understand its basic components. The four pillars of cloud native are microservices, DevOps, open source standards, and containers.
Chronosphere + cloud native = A perfect match
Cloud native practices offer significant business benefits, including faster time-to-market, greater scalability, improved resilience, reduced costs, and better application agility and flexibility. With cloud native adoption, organizations can improve their software development processes and deliver better products and services to their customers.
When migrating to a cloud native architecture, teams must have observability software to oversee system health. Observability tools provide real-time visibility into system performance that help developers to quickly identify and resolve issues, optimize system performance, and design better applications for the cloud.
Built specifically for cloud native environments, Chronosphere provides a full suite of observability tools for your organization to control data cardinality and understand costs with the Chronosphere Control Plane, and assist engineering teams with cloud native adoption.
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