Cloud Native Guidebook Roadmap

Cloud Native Guidebook Roadmap An architecture diagram generated by Archify. Linux & Container · kernel · namespaces · cgroups · Foundations Linux & Container kernel · namespaces · cgroups Kubernetes · core concepts · scheduling · Orchestration Kubernetes core concepts · scheduling Networking · 25 protocols · CNI · Connectivity Networking 25 protocols · CNI Storage · measured EBS benchmark · State Storage measured EBS benchmark Data Pipeline · Kafka · Spark · Flink · Data · AI Data Pipeline Kafka · Spark · Flink Amazon EKS · Hybrid · Auto Mode · Orchestration Amazon EKS Hybrid · Auto Mode Service Mesh · measured mTLS latency · Connectivity Service Mesh measured mTLS latency Database · 100M-row ClickHouse bench · State Database 100M-row ClickHouse bench AI/ML · vLLM · Ray · Kubeflow · Data · AI AI/ML vLLM · Ray · Kubeflow Security & Policy · Cross-cutting — applies at every layer Security & Policy GitOps · Cross-cutting — applies at every layer GitOps Platform Eng. · Cross-cutting — applies at every layer Platform Eng. Registry · Cross-cutting — applies at every layer Registry Observability · Cross-cutting — applies at every layer Observability Operations · Cross-cutting — applies at every layer Operations managed up to L7 DB on top to models disciplines under every layer Foundations Orchestration Connectivity State Data · AI Cross-cutting — applies at every layer Legend Backend Database Cloud Security Message bus

Learning order

  • • Foundations → Orchestration → Connectivity → State → Data·AI
  • • Every document has a quiz; major topics have labs

Measured benchmark series

  • • Istio mTLS latency (sidecar vs ambient)
  • • EBS gp2 vs gp3 with fio
  • • ClickHouse 100M-row ingest · queries

Cross-cutting

  • • Security · GitOps · Platform · Registry · Observability · Operations
  • • Applied together at every layer