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Cloud-native app development follows the microservices architectural approach, relies on containers for flexibility and scalability, and adopts agile methods.
The Operator Framework is an open source toolkit to manage Kubernetes native applications, called Operators, in an effective, automated, and scalable way.
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Kubebuilder is a comprehensive development kit for rapidly building and publishing Kubernetes APIs and Controllers using CRDs. Kubebuilder scaffolds projects and API definitions and is built on top of the controller-runtime libraries.
Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform for managing containerized workloads and services. When you deploy to Kubernetes, you have a framework to run distributed systems resiliently in a production environment. You can manage the containers that run the applications and ensure that there is no downtime because Kubernetes addresses issues like scaling requirements, failover, and deployment patterns.
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