Automated Consulting for Cloud Native Architectures

The rapidly growing interest in cloud native applications means more users than ever are needing guidance on how to design and deploy their systems. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has developed a landscape map that provides the most current collection of both open source and proprietary tools and services, but the breadth of options and the complex relationships between various tools and services can be quite overwhelming. Most users interested in exploring the cloud native space will need to hire an experienced consultant to guide them through the choices, but this can be both cost prohibitive and logistically challenging. This paper describes our work to automate this consulting process and enable users to make intelligent, informed decisions about their architecture design and then deploy the architecture for immediate use.