Why Build Your Own Cloud Native Drupal Platform? The Main Benefits and Challenges to Consider

How do you know if your specific use case calls for a cloud-native Drupal development environment?

Is a container-based infrastructure a viable solution for you? For your business needs?

And, assuming that you’ve run your own evaluation and that your use case does demand a switch from your current VM to a… multi-cloud Drupal hosting architecture:

So that you can build, deploy, scale and manage fast and resilient Drupal apps in the cloud?

In this post, we commit to answering all your key cloud-native and Drupal-related questions:

What is a cloud-native application?

Or, if you wish:

Applications that use the cloud computing model to its full potential.

DevOps, agile, microservices and other modern software architectures all fall under the umbrella of a cloud-native methodology.

Therefore, it’s fast, resilient, highly scalable and easily maintainable applications that you get to run in a cloud-native infrastructure.

In other words: where does Drupal fit in this revolution in how we develop and deploy our applications?

Getting the most of cloud-native and Drupal comes down to:

For there are cases (is this your case, too?) when such a powerful, yet… challenging architecture is not justified by the company’s business needs.

So, let’s answer your “when” question first.

You’re better off with a cloud-native infrastructure, where you deploy Kubernetes and containers, if:

Here are the 2 most obvious advantages:

What would be your major wins if you ran Drupal in containers?

Here are the 3 most significant ones:

What goes into a cloud-native Drupal platform? There are 3 key players involved:

The robust content management system which, beginning with its 8th major version, grew into a Symfony-based content management framework.

Backed by a huge (100K+) and active community of contributors and a rich plugin ecosystem, Drupal powers a wide variety of web applications: media and entertainment apps, non-profit, gov, education…

It’s the standard container orchestration technology.

In the context of your future cloud-native infrastructure, you’ll be using it to manage:

It’s the standard… tool that you will be using for creating your containers.

Here’s how a… decent wishlist should look like:

What’s the proper set-up for a container-based Drupal architecture?

“And what challenges should I expect?” you’ll further wonder:

From scaling your LAMP stack app architecture to LA/E/MP concurrency model to… deployment models and monitoring, they’ll get you through all the main considerations behind adopting this modern approach to Drupal hosting.

The END!

What do you think:

Are the advantages highlighted here relevant enough for your use case and business needs? Or are the outlined challenges too discouraging for you?

Feel free to share with us any thoughts and concerns that you might have regarding the idea of building your own cloud native Drupal platform.

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