We hear this term all the time, but what exactly does it mean for your cloud infrastructure? Time for a quick quiz!
I read it as ‘optimize for change, not stability’ — CNCF’s definition aligns (toc/DEFINITION.md at main · cncf/toc · GitHub), and containers are a means, not the end. Concrete step: add health probes and an HPA to one service tied to a simple SLO, then rehearse roll-forward and rollback — if a node disappears and nobody pages, you’re close. Does your quiz count a managed DB you can recreate from IaC as cloud native, or is that cloud-adjacent?