• Instructor: Katie Gamanji
• Prerequisites
• Course Outline

Introduction to Cloud Native

• A set of practices that empowers an organization to build and manage applications at scale
• One can use private, hybrid, or public cloud providers and their services
• Essentially, the goal is to ensure an application that is fast and agile in terms of integrating customer feedback and adapting to the surrounding technology ecosystem
• Containers are used to run a single application with all the required dependencies. They are easy to manage, deploy, and fast to recover

CNCF and Cloud Native Tooling

• With the increased used of containers, it was essential to bring in container management tools (Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos, Kubernetes) as well
• Kuberenetes is a container orchestrator that automates the configuration, management, and scalability of an application
• It was derived from Google's Borg (in 2014), and is maintained by CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation)
• Kubernetes has the following functionalities:
  • Runtime for application execution environment
  • Networking for application connectivity
  • Storage for application resources
  • Service Mesh for granular control of traffic within a cluster
  • Logs and metrics to construct the obervability stack
  • Tracing for building the full request journey
• Stakeholders
• Tools