the.com/cloud native
software built to be evicted, cloned, and reborn at any second — and shrug it off.
means an approach to building apps as small, independent services designed to run in containers and scale across cloud infrastructure, not just tolerate it.
from coined as cloud computing matured past 2010, when engineers stopped lifting old apps into the cloud and started designing new ones assuming servers are disposable, cheap, and constantly dying.
key ideatreat servers like cattle, not pets
core toolskubernetes, docker, microservices, service mesh
governing bodycncf hosts the official project ecosystem
opposite mindsetlift-and-shift, monolith on a single big server