{"id":45190,"date":"2022-08-05T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/?p=3988433"},"modified":"2022-08-05T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:02:06","slug":"vendors-keep-misusing-the-cloud-native-label-customers-may-not-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/?p=45190","title":{"rendered":"Vendors keep misusing the \u201ccloud native\u201d label. Customers may not care"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We keep applying \u201ccloud native\u201d to things like Kubernetes that are expressly not native to the cloud. Does it matter? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In tech we like to throw the term \u201ccloud native\u201d around like it means something. Or, rather, that it means something specific that everyone agrees upon. Not so, as evidenced by a recent Twitter thread<\/a> that Maria Naggaga, a lead principal product manager at Microsoft, sparked. She asked her followers \u2014 a pretty technical bunch \u2014 to summarize what cloud native means. Their answers suggest that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation might want to spend some of its membership dues to evangelize a standard definition.<\/p>\n

Not that semantic accuracy seems to be getting in the way of plenty of cloud native IT buying.<\/p>\n

In the cloud, but not of the cloud?<\/h2>\n

For many, cloud native is somewhat synonymous with Kubernetes and containers. The question is\u2026 why? As Hassy Veldstra called out<\/a>, \u201cKubernetes is as cloud-native as Java was OS-native with its \u2018write once run everywhere\u2019 promise. Nothing \u2018native\u2019 about trying to abstract away the thing you claim to be \u2018native\u2019 to.\u201d<\/p>\n