Cloud-Native Architecture

Red Hat Adds Interconnect and Cybersecurity Services for Kubernetes
Red Hat today added a Red Hat Service Interconnect to its portfolio that is based on an open source Skupper.io project that enables Layer 7 networking between application components running on different ...

Four Challenges Facing all Cloud-Native Architects
Cloud-native architectures have revolutionized the way businesses operate their applications and services in the cloud. This shift provides immense benefits, such as increased agility, scalability and cost savings. However, moving to a ...

Why the Best Cloud-Native Approach is Cloud-Agnostic
Among the many advantages of the cloud-native approach are speed, cost optimization, scalability and reduced time-to-market. It’s no wonder, then, that Gartner estimates that more than 85% of organizations will embrace a ...

Serverless Computing is Great, Except When it’s Not
Serverless computing is an innovative way of operating your application in the cloud. Essentially, it allows you to run an application without the need to allocate computer instances to the program. This ...

SUSE Looks to Extend Reach of Rancher Platform
SUSE has updated its Rancher management platform for Kubernetes to make it simpler to extend the user interface to manage other elements of a cloud-native application environment. Peter Smails, general manager of ...

Managing Technical Debt in a Cloud-Native Application
Technical debt is the cost of doing additional work caused by choosing an easy, limited or sub-optimal solution now rather than using a better approach that would take longer or cost more ...

Containers vs. Bare Metal, VMs and Serverless
As I explained in my prior blog, Containers Practices Gap Assessment, containerizing software is valuable for DevOps. Yet, as I work with clients on their DevOps journeys, I continue to encounter organizations that ...

The Top 7 Kubernetes Alternatives for Container Orchestration
Container management is a heated subject when it comes to developing software. Containerization has revolutionized how we look at infrastructure, making it easier to execute software in production. But, you don’t need ...

The Ultimate List of Open Source Cloud-Native Tools
There are so many great open source cloud-native tools for nearly everything you want to do. And they’re all in one place—look no further than the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This ...

Transform Your DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE to Cloud Native
It is crucial to appreciate the transformative potential of cloud-native technology in shaping the future of business. Cloud-native represents a paradigm shift in designing, building and deploying applications, fully harnessing the benefits ...