'Cloud-Native' Fail - Virtualization
Q: Is running a Virtual Machine on a Cloud-vendor's hypervisor 'Cloud-Native'? 🤔
A: No. The industry terminology 'Cloud-Native' refers to architecture design principles and does not refer to a Cloud vendor.
'Cloud-Native' indicates different (modern) architecture design principles as compared to former architectures - Distributed Systems, Midrange, and Mainframe.
Assess from the lens of Virtualization
".. a Cloud-vendor's proprietary/native platform and Virtual Machine hosting service(s) using legacy Distributed Systems architecture hypervisor ..".
An oxymoron to describe the above as 'Cloud-Native'.
'Cloud-vendor-Native'
The above instead is more correctly defined as 'Cloud-vendor-Native' (CvN). CvN more clearly describes a Cloud vendor preference/bias (not architecture).
CvN can be defined as "the primary, secondary, and tertiary preference/bias to consume Cloud(s) vendor's native services".
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CvN is the antithesis of Cloud-Native architecture design principles since almost all of the Cloud-vendor's proprietary/native services do not have service affinity to run on other Clouds.
A different post topic, but there is a not surprising absence of thousands of press releases by end customers celebrating their cost savings hosting legacy architecture VMs workloads on Cloud vendor hypervisors. Gartner 5 R's made this obvious that the Cloud cost savings for most enterprises across industries would not come to fruition unless incumbent workload modernization to Cloud-Native architecture happened first.
VMware Replacement to 'Cloud-Native' (architecture) Virtualization
It is an "architecture technology tax" to run VMs on hypervisors; whether in the Cloud or on-prem, when Cloud-Native Virtualization (KubeVirt is the CNCF project started by Red Hat in 2015) affords vast improvements and efficiencies over traditional hypervisors for Virtualization.
VMware replacement presents the opportunity to gain #CloudNative architecture capabilities for Virtualized workloads without having to change the workload.
#OpenShift Virtualization is Cloud-Native (architecture) for Virtualized workloads. The control plane is #Kubernetes and VMs are managed in containers.
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