Cloud Native Strategies
Cloud-native is the contemporary design principle for dynamic, scalable applications. It offers a high degree of flexibility and enables the advantages of the cloud to be used efficiently and to their full extent.
Cloud-native services with freedom for your individual requirements
What is cloud-native and how do I use it?
Cloud-native is about developing modern applications with agile methods – and making them available dynamically, scalably and fault-tolerantly in one or more clouds. Microservices are the foundation for this. Containers are the means of choice for operating a microservice-based architecture.
The advantages here are agility, better quality and easy portability to different platforms. This enables companies to adapt quickly to new requirements and react swiftly to changes. The value chain is significantly accelerated, while costs can be saved at the same time.
We support you in the development and realisation of your cloud-native projects and enable flexible cooperation based on a shared responsibility model. Depending on your individual needs, you can choose between fully managed, co-managed and self-managed approaches or a flexible combination of these options.
Our Managed Container Applications Services
Companies’ requirements for container services can be very different, depending on the situation they are starting from. Some customers want a partner who relieves them completely of the management of the application. Others prefer to perform certain tasks themselves, such as deploying or monitoring an application.
We support you in the development and realisation of your cloud-native projects and enable flexible cooperation based on a shared responsibility model. Depending on your individual needs, you can choose between fully managed, co-managed and self-managed approaches or a flexible combination of these options.
Our different service models allow you a great amount of freedom in managing your microservices landscape and offer flexible answers to future challenges.
White-Box: This is the most comprehensive service approach. Claranet is familiar with the internal structure of an application and has the skills to ensure secure and reliable operation at the application level. SLAs are provided on the availability of the application itself.
Grey-Box: In this model, responsibilities are shared between the customer and Claranet: the customer is in charge of the application. Claranet sees the respective application as a “Black Box” and assumes operational responsibility, e.g. monitoring on a container basis. SLAs are provided on the platform and on incident response times, but not on the application level.
Black-Box: This model is an alternative to the Grey Box approach in terms of remuneration and service level. Know-how and hands-on services are provided at cost during operations. Claranet offers first-level support, which means that it is mainly incidents that are displayed.
No-Box: This is a purely self-managed approach, e.g. for prototypes or proofs of concept. Claranet only offers the platform, which the customer operates themselves. Application management is not included in this model.
What you need to think about in your cloud-native transformation
A cloud readiness check: In the run-up to the project, you should check which scenarios and applications cloud-native technologies can be used successfully in. The IT landscape in many companies has numerous existing applications, and introducing cloud-native technologies doesn’t always make technical or economic sense.
The right migration model: Migration can take various forms. While it is advisable to start directly with a microservice architecture for greenfield projects, adapting the platform through re-platforming or converting the application via re-factoring can be the appropriate approach for legacy projects. More information about the migration models
Agile service management: DevOps is the key to agile collaboration between Ops and Dev. However, the advantages of ITIL, such as traceability, transparency and reporting, should also be taken into account.
Software is crucial: You should make consistent use of software-defined technologies and infrastructures or platforms that are either a public cloud or comply with its principles.
Efficient management: Container orchestration and management tools like Kubernetes offer a perfect way to manage containers efficiently.
We assist you in your cloud-native project, regardless of whether you are starting directly with a microservice architecture, planning to redesign a monolithic application or want to introduce platform services in a pilot project. In addition, we take over secure 24/7 operation of your cloud environments, including classic managed services.