a Cloud-Native App
Cloud-native app is a term promoted by VMware to refer to apps that are installed in cloud-based virtual machines. According to VMware, cloud-native apps differ from traditional applications in several keys areas, including:
Cloud-native apps use an elastic infrastructure
Cloud-native apps need to provision instances of themselves through an API
Cloud-native apps must be able to scale up and down at a rapid rate, with the ability to offer thousands or even hundreds of thousands of nodes or instances
Cloud-native apps are autonomic in nature, with the ability to detect and work around failures, and if one or more nodes are lost, new nodes are spun up extremely quickly
Project Lightwave and Project Photon for Cloud-Native Apps
In April 2015 VMware announced two new enterprise projects focused on securely working with cloud-native apps, Project Lightwave and Project Photon. Project Lightwave is an open-source solution that delivers identity and access management services for providing enterprise-level security for cloud-native apps.
Project Photon is a lightweight Linux operating system distribution that has been optimized for use with cloud-native applications in order to provide an enforcement layer for identity and access management through VMware vSphere and vCloud Air.
Related terms: cloud app, cloud computing and Cloud Computing Security Challenges
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