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Why or rather "when" should you consider building your own cloud-native Drupal platform?
Is a cloud platform the right answer to your Drupal app development challenges?
Is a container-based infrastructure a viable solution for you? For your business needs and for building digital experiences that meet the needs of your audience?
How do you know if your specific use case calls for a cloud-native Drupal app development environment?
And, assuming that you've run your own evaluation and that your use case does demand a switch from your current VM to a... multi-cloud Drupal hosting architecture:
How do you make Drupal... cloud-native friendly?
So that you can build, deploy, scale and manage fast and resilient Drupal apps in the cloud?
In this post, we commit to answering all your key cloud-native and Drupal-related questions:
What is a cloud-native application?
It's a holistic approach to designing, building, and running applications that make the most of cloud-native concepts.
Or, if you wish:
Cloud-native application development is a methodology — covering all stages of an app's lifecycle: design, deployment... operations — for developing apps that run in the cloud.
Applications that use the cloud computing model to its full potential.
DevOps, agile, microservices, and other modern software architectures all fall under the umbrella of a cloud-native methodology.
Therefore, it's fast, resilient, highly scalable and easily maintainable applications that you get to run in a cloud-native infrastructure.
In other words: where does Drupal fit in this revolution in how we develop and deploy our applications on a cloud platform?
Overall, taking full advantage of a cloud-native Drupal app development environment means:
Finding the best solution for handling decentralized storage, auto-scaling, auto-provisioning and multi-region fault tolerance.
Getting the most of cloud-native and Drupal comes down to:
For there are cases (is this your case, too?) when such a powerful, yet... challenging architecture is not justified by the company's business needs.
So, let's answer your "when" question first.
You're better off with a cloud-native infrastructure, where you deploy Kubernetes and containers, if:
"OK, so it looks like I "qualify" for it. But still: what would be the biggest advantages of building my own cloud-native platform compared to opting for a cloud vendor's services?"
Here are the 2 most obvious advantages:
What would be your major wins if you ran Drupal in containers?
Here are the 3 most significant ones:
What goes into a cloud-native Drupal platform? There are 3 key players involved:
The robust, open-source software and content management system which, beginning with its 8th major version, grew into a Symfony-based content management framework.
Backed by a huge (100K+) and active community of contributors and a rich plugin ecosystem, Drupal powers a wide variety of web applications: media and entertainment apps, non-profit, gov, education...
The Acquia Cloud Platform is the only web hosting solution designed to meet the wide range of demands of enterprise-level businesses in Drupal.
5.2. Kubernetes
It's the standard container orchestration technology.
In the context of your future cloud-native infrastructure, you'll be using it to manage:
It's the standard... tool that you will be using for creating your containers.
What feature requirements should you have with respect to your Drupal app development environment?
Here's how a... decent wishlist should look like:
What's the proper setup for a container-based Drupal architecture?
"What are the key requirements that my future cloud-native Drupal platform should meet?" you might legitimately ask yourself.
"And what challenges should I expect?" you'll further wonder:
The END!
What do you think about Drupal Cloud?
Is a cloud native Drupal development environment a viable solution for you?
Are the advantages highlighted here relevant enough for your use case and business needs? Or are the outlined challenges too discouraging for you?
Feel free to share with us any thoughts and concerns that you might have regarding the idea of building your own cloud native Drupal platform and see how Drupal Cloud can help you deliver outstanding digital experiences.
We’re excited to hear your project.
Let’s collaborate!