[1][2] These technologies, such as containers, microservices, serverless functions, cloud native processors and immutable infrastructure, deployed via declarative code are common elements of this architectural style.
[5][6] Cloud native techniques "enable loosely coupled systems that are resilient, manageable, and observable.
Combined with robust automation, they allow engineers to make high-impact changes frequently and predictably with minimal toil."
Additionally, such systems are easier to manage, and monitor, given their modular nature, which simplifies tracking performance and identifying issues.
[7][citation needed] Frequently, cloud-native applications are built as a set of microservices that run in Open Container Initiative compliant containers, such as Containerd, and may be orchestrated in Kubernetes and managed and deployed using DevOps and Git CI workflows[8] (although there is a large amount of competing open source that supports cloud-native development).