The way developers design, build, and run software has changed significantly with the evolution of microservices and containers. These modern architectures offer new distributed primitives that require a different set of practices than many developers, tech leads, and architects are accustomed to. With this focused guide, Bilgin Ibryam and Roland Huss provide common reusable patterns and principles for designing and implementing cloud native applications on Kubernetes. This book aims to help developers discover and learn about the most common patterns for creating cloud native applications with Kubernetes. First, let’s take a brief look at the two primary ingredients of this book: Kubernetes and design patterns. Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform. Today, Kubernetes is considered one of the most popular projects on GitHub. It is fair to claim that Kubernetes is the most commonly used and feature-rich container orchestration platform. Kubernetes also forms the foundation of other platforms built on top of it. The most prominent of those Platform-as-a-Service systems is Red Hat OpenShift, which provides various additional capabilities to Kubernetes. These are only some reasons we chose Kubernetes as the reference platform for the cloud native patterns in this book. This book assumes you have some basic knowledge of Kubernetes.