1.
CONTAINERIZATION
• Commonly done with Docker containers
• Any size application and dependencies (even PDP-11
code running on an emulator) can be containerized
• Over time, you should aspire towards splitting suitable
applications and writing future functionality as microservices
CLOUD NATIVE
TRAIL MAP 2. CI/CD
• Setup Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) so
The Cloud Native Landscape l.cncf.io that changes to your source code automatically result in a new
has a large number of options. This Cloud container being built, tested, and deployed to staging and
Native Trail Map is a recommended process eventually, perhaps, to production
for leveraging open source, cloud native • Setup automated rollouts, roll backs and testing
technologies. At each step, you can choose • Argo is a set of Kubernetes-native tools for
a vendor-supported offering or do it yourself, deploying and running jobs, applications,
and everything after step #3 is optional workflows, and events using GitOps
based on your circumstances.
3. ORCHESTRATION & paradigms such as continuous and
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APPLICATION DEFINITION
HELP ALONG THE WAY • Kubernetes is the market-leading orchestration solution
• You should select a Certified Kubernetes Distribution, 4. OBSERVABILITY & ANALYSIS
Hosted Platform, or Installer: cncf.io/ck
A. Training and Certification • Helm Charts help you define, install, and upgrade • Pick solutions for monitoring, logging and tracing
Consider training offerings from CNCF even the most complex Kubernetes application • Consider CNCF projects Prometheus for monitoring,
and then take the exam to become a Fluentd for logging and Jaeger for Tracing
Certified Kubernetes Administrator or a • For tracing, look for an OpenTracing-compatible
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer implementation like Jaeger
cncf.io/training
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If you want assistance with Kubernetes CNCF Graduated CNCF Graduated
and the surrounding ecosystem, consider 5. SERVICE PROXY, DISCOVERY, & MESH
leveraging a Kubernetes Certified
• CoreDNS is a fast and flexible tool that
Service Provider
is useful for service discovery
cncf.io/kcsp • Envoy and Linkerd each enable service
mesh architectures
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• They offer health checking, routing,
C. Join CNCF's End User and load balancing
6. NETWORKING, POLICY,
Community
& SECURITY
For companies that don’t offer cloud
native services externally To enable more flexible networking, use a CNI-compliant
network project like Calico, Flannel, or Weave Net. Open
cncf.io/enduser Policy Agent (OPA) is a general-purpose policy engine with
CNCF Graduated CNCF Graduated CNCF Incubating uses ranging from authorization and admission control to
data filtering. Falco is an anomaly detection engine for
WHAT IS CLOUD NATIVE? cloud native.
7. DISTRIBUTED DATABASE & STORAGE
Cloud native technologies empower
organizations to build and run scalable When you need more resiliency and scalability than
applications in modern, dynamic you can get from a single database, Vitess is a good
environments such as public, private, option for running MySQL at scale through sharding.
and hybrid clouds. Containers, service Rook is a storage orchestrator that integrates a CNCF Incubating CNCF Incubating CNCF Incubating
meshes, microservices, immutable diverse set of storage solutions into Kubernetes.
infrastructure, and declarative APIs Serving as the "brain" of Kubernetes, etcd provides a
exemplify this approach. reliable way to store data across a cluster of machines. 8. STREAMING & MESSAGING
TiKV is a high performant distributed transactional When you need higher performance than JSON-REST, consider
These techniques enable loosely key-value store written in Rust. using gRPC or NATS. gRPC is a universal RPC framework. NATS is
coupled systems that are resilient, a multi-modal messaging system that includes request/reply,
manageable, and observable. Com- pub/sub and load balanced queues. CloudEvents is a specification
bined with robust automation, they for describing event data in common ways.
allow engineers to make high-impact
changes frequently and predictably
with minimal toil. CNCF Graduated CNCF Incubating CNCF Incubating CNCF Incubating
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation
seeks to drive adoption of this para-
digm by fostering and sustaining an
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ecosystem of open source, vendor- Harbor is a registry that stores, signs, and scans content.
neutral projects. We democratize You can use alternative container runtimes. The most common,
state-of-the-art patterns to make these both of which are OCI-compliant, are containerd and CRI-O. 10. SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION
innovations accessible for everyone. If you need to do secure software distribution,
evaluate Notary, an implementation of The
Update Framework.
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