Cloud Native Application Platform

The Platform to End All Platforms

Goals

• Cost-effective - Minimize infrastructure costs while maximizing performance.
• Cloud-agnosticism - Avoid vendor lock-in by supporting multiple cloud providers and on-premises deployments.
• Flexible - Support commomn workload types and characteristics:
  • Web Applications
  • APIs / Microservices
  • Background Jobs / Workers
  • Scheduled Tasks / Cron Jobs
  • Event-Driven Functions
  • Scale-to-zero support
• Ops - Streamline application deployment, scaling, and management, via:
  • CI/CD
    • GitOps
    • Infrastructure as Code
  • Observability
    • Logging
    • Monitoring
    • Alerting

Tools Used

Runtime Components

• Kubernetes - Container Orchestration
  • Argo CD - GitOps Continuous Delivery
  • Argo Rollouts - Advanced Deployment Strategies
  • keptn - Cloud-Native Application Lifecycle Orchestration
    • RKE - Kubernetes Distribution
    • Kine - Lightweight SQL datastore for Kubernetes state management
  • testkube - Kubernetes-Native Test Orchestration
  • external-secrets - External Secrets Operator
  • cert-manager - Automated Certificate Management
  • reloader - Auto Reload Pods on ConfigMap/Secret Changes
  • reflector
  • karpenter - Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler
• wasmcloud - Cloud-Native WebAssembly Runtime

AWS Runtime

• AWS CDK - Infrastructure as Code
  • IAM - Identity and Access Management
  • VPC - Virtual Private Cloud

Ops

• k9s - Kubernetes CLI
• helm - Kubernetes Package Manager
• kustomize - Kubernetes Configuration Customization
• devbox

AWS Ops

• AWS CodeBuild - Continuous Integration Service
• AWS CodePipeline - Continuous Delivery

Github Ops

• GitHub Actions

Inspiration

• Kubefirst/Konstruct