Cloud-native applications explained

• An understanding of cloud computing

Cloud-native applications are a collection of small, independent, and loosely coupled services. 

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Red Hat®’s solutions help you support every aspect of cloud-native application development so you can continuously deliver new features to your customers. 

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Cloud architecture is how individual technologies are integrated to create clouds—IT environments that abstract, pool, and share scalable resources across a network. 

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Service brokers hold information about the services provided, carry out the details of ordering, provisioning, and connecting these services to the application being built by the consumer, and automate steps that used to be performed by IT operations with multiple infrastructure management tools. 

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Serverless is a cloud-native development model that allows developers to build and run applications without having to manage servers. 

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With microservices, applications are broken down into their smallest components, independent from each other. 

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A service mesh, like the open source project Istio, is a way to control how different parts of an application share data with one another. 

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Provisioning is the process of creating and setting up IT infrastructure, and includes the steps required to manage user and system access to various resources. 

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Red Hat OpenShift® and Red Hat OpenStack® Platform offer different (but complementary) approaches to managing cloud-based applications and services. 

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Now that you understand cloud-native application development, you’re ready to learn more about automating application development in Red Hat OpenShift.