Building cloud native application — analysis for multi-component application deployment

Cloud-native application is a term broadly used to classify applications that are built with a cloud first approach making use of cloud computing models by cloud providers (both on and off premise) to achieve increased speed, flexibility and quality, while reducing deployment risks. Container based application development has gained prominence as it provides businesses with the capability to build applications that are highly scalable and fault tolerant. This paper discusses the nature of multi-component applications, fundamental approaches of developing applications using container-based technologies, how they fair against virtual machine-based deployments. The paper provides a comparative study on virtual machine-based deployments and container-based deployments and evaluates the performance for multi-component application on these environments.