Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - A Guide to Building Cloud Native Applications

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: A Guide to Building Cloud Native Applications

Cloud native development is a modern approach to designing, building, deploying, and managing applications. This approach takes advantage of the benefits of utility computing from providers, such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and emphasizes automation, elasticity, and resilience.

OCI is a next-generation cloud designed to run any application faster and more securely for less. It includes the tools used to build new cloud native applications and to run existing enterprise applications without rearchitecting them.

Whether you are new to the cloud or just new to OCI, this book provides an overview of the OCI services needed to build cloud native applications. You will learn

• OCI concepts and terminology
• How to manage Infrastructure as Code using modern tools and platforms
• OCI’s breadth of cloud native services
• How to operate the managed Kubernetes service (Container Engine for Kubernetes) at scale
• How to configure a cluster for advanced use cases, and use specialized hardware capabilities
• How to use cloud native application deployment platforms and observability tools
• How to secure applications, data, and the underlying infrastructure using open-source and OCI native security tools and processes

The culmination of the book is an open-source sample application composed of microservices that incorporates the tools and concepts shared throughout the book and is available on GitHub.

Jeevan Gheevarghese Joseph is a senior principal product manager in the Containers and Kubernetes Services group within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. He focuses on product strategy for containers and Kubernetes platforms at OCI. Jeevan also works with strategic customers as an advisor to help them make the most of Oracle’s tooling and technology platforms. Jeevan’s interests include application architecture, developer tooling, automation, and cross-product integration. Before his current role, he held positions in the Oracle A-Team and Oracle Data Cloud. He routinely speaks at developer events and industry conferences.

Adao Oliveira Junior has been working in the technology industry for more than two decades, with five years of experience in cloud native solutions. He is a senior principal solutions architect who excels at gathering high-level requirements and turning them into technical solutions, aiding customers and partners worldwide. Adao has held various positions, including sales engineering and product manager, in organizations like Oracle A-Team and OCI Developer Adoption. He is a well-known figure in the cloud native field and has made significant contributions to open-source projects and the Kubernetes community. Adao holds multiple Kubernetes certifications, including CKS, CKA, CKAD, and KCNA, as well as other computer and cloud industry certifications.

Mickey Boxell is a senior principal product manager in the Containers and Kubernetes Services group within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. He has been a member of the Kubernetes release team for many releases, including as the communications coordinator for Kubernetes 1.24 and the docs lead for Kubernetes 1.27. Mickey has worked in the cloud platform and infrastructure space for the past decade. He has spoken at numerous developer meetups and conferences, contributed to many open-source projects, and worked directly with many customers to help implement Oracle technology.