Cloud native is a new paradigm for developing, deploying, and running applications using containers, microservices, and container orchestration. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) drives adoption of this paradigm through open source projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. Cloud native applications are packaged as lightweight containers, developed as loosely coupled microservices, and deployed on elastic cloud infrastructure to optimize resource utilization. CNCF seeks to make these innovations accessible to everyone.