According to Forrester, 40% of companies will adopt a cloud-native strategy. The Forrester Cloud Infrastructure Survey of 2022 revealed that decision-makers in the cloud space have implemented containerized applications, contributing to half of the total workload in their organizations. Decisions related to the cloud significantly impact your company, but what exactly is Cloud Native and what are its advantages?

What is Cloud Native?

Cloud Native is an approach to software development that optimally utilizes or implements cloud characteristics. This means that applications and services developed with a Cloud Native approach are designed to easily achieve elasticity, containerization, and automation to harness all the benefits the cloud offers.

Why Cloud Native?

Cloud Native offers various advantages for companies, such as:

• Maximizing resource efficiency and reducing the complexity of application management.

• Accelerating development time and quickly responding to market changes by leveraging cloud services and technologies.

• Enabling high flexibility, automatic scalability, and better availability.

How to Start Implementing Cloud Native?

Modern companies aspire to develop applications with high flexibility, resilience, and the ability to update to meet customer demands quickly. To achieve these goals, companies need to use modern tools and techniques that inherently support application development in the cloud infrastructure.

These steps will help you to start the implementation of Cloud Native:

• Understand Cloud Native Concepts and Advantages: Learn the basic concepts of Cloud Native, such as containerization, container orchestration, microservices, and automation.

• Ensure Cloud Native Security

  Consider security from the first, using best security practices, including access management, encryption, security scanning, and monitoring. Ensure monitoring solutions are available to understand application and infrastructure performance, using tools like Grafana for analysis and visualization of monitoring data.

• Evaluate Applications

  Evaluation is needed for applications to determine their suitability for cloud-native technology implementation.

• Team Collaboration

  Ensure the team is familiar with collaboration tools and practices that support cloud-native development, such as Git for version control.

• Choose a Cloud Platform

  Select a cloud service provider based on security and other needs (examples: Flou, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) with services and features specific to Cloud Native.

• Define a Strategy

  Companies should have a clear strategy for adopting cloud-native technology and regularly updating applications.

Example of Cloud Native Implementation in a Company

A manufacturing company uses Cloud Native to improve production efficiency and product quality, essential to meet the increasingly demanding customer needs.

For instance, Company A uses Cloud Native to develop an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) application. This application collects data from sensors in Company A's factory, which is then used to enhance production efficiency and product quality.

To reap the benefits of implementing Cloud Native, consult with an experienced cloud provider like Flou.

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Source : 

1. Forrester

2. Gartner

3. AWS

4. Bisnis.com