Cloud-Native vs. Cloud-Hosted: Key Architectural Decisions

Kubernetes alone doesn't make a workload cloud-native; addressing stateful assumptions, chatty patterns, and observability is crucial. The post outlines a graduation path from VM-based to genuinely cloud-native, including workload assessment, managed service substitution, and stateless redesign. It emphasizes that containerization without these steps is just lift-and-shift at the container level.