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Cloud-Native Architecture Flowchart

Complete containerized environment with CNCF landscape tools and cloud providers

Enterprise Cloud-Native Stack

This architecture represents a modern, production-ready cloud-native application environment. It combines industry-standard CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) tools with managed cloud services to create a resilient, scalable, and observable platform. Each layer serves a specific purpose in the application lifecycle.

Infrastructure Layer

Foundation cloud infrastructure providing compute, networking, and storage primitives.

Azure AKS
Managed Kubernetes service
Azure
AWS EKS
Elastic Kubernetes Service
AWS
Google GKE
Google Kubernetes Engine
GCP
VPC / VNet
Virtual private networking
Multi-Cloud

Container Orchestration

Core container orchestration platform managing deployments, scaling, and lifecycle.

Kubernetes
Container orchestration platform
CNCF Graduated
containerd
Container runtime
CNCF Graduated
Helm
Kubernetes package manager
CNCF Graduated
Harbor
Container registry
CNCF Graduated

Service Mesh & Networking

Advanced networking, traffic management, and service-to-service communication.

Istio
Service mesh platform
CNCF Graduated
Linkerd
Ultra-light service mesh
CNCF Graduated
Envoy
Cloud-native proxy
CNCF Graduated
Calico / Cilium
Network policy & security
CNCF
CoreDNS
DNS and service discovery
CNCF Graduated
NGINX Ingress
Ingress controller
CNCF

Storage & Data

Persistent storage solutions for stateful applications and databases.

Rook
Cloud-native storage orchestrator
CNCF Graduated
Longhorn
Distributed block storage
CNCF Graduated
Ceph
Distributed storage system
Open Source
MinIO
Object storage (S3-compatible)
Open Source

Observability & Monitoring

Complete observability stack with metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.

Prometheus
Metrics and monitoring
CNCF Graduated
Grafana
Metrics visualization
Open Source
Jaeger
Distributed tracing
CNCF Graduated
Fluentd / Loki
Log aggregation
CNCF Graduated
OpenTelemetry
Observability framework
CNCF Incubating

Security & Compliance

Security scanning, policy enforcement, secrets management, and runtime protection.

Falco
Runtime security
CNCF Graduated
Vault
Secrets management
Open Source
Open Policy Agent
Policy enforcement
CNCF Graduated
cert-manager
Certificate management
CNCF Graduated
Trivy / Grype
Vulnerability scanning
Open Source

CI/CD & GitOps

Continuous integration, deployment, and GitOps workflows for automated delivery.

Argo CD
GitOps continuous delivery
CNCF Graduated
Flux
GitOps toolkit
CNCF Graduated
Tekton
Cloud-native CI/CD
CNCF Graduated
Jenkins X
Automated CI/CD for K8s
Open Source

Application Layer

Your containerized applications, microservices, and workloads running on the platform.

Microservices
Containerized applications
Databases
Stateful workloads
Serverless
Knative, OpenFaaS
CNCF
Messaging
Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ

Legend

CNCF Projects
Cloud Services
Open Source