Oracle Cloud Native Framework Promises ‘Bi-Directional’ Cloud Portability – InApps Technology 2022

Oracle has released a framework to help developers build applications for cloud native architectures, both those in the cloud as well as those behind the firewall.

To be available both as a service on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and as software, The Oracle Cloud Native Framework includes support for many open source cloud native infrastructure technologies, including Oracle Functions, a new serverless cloud service based on the open source Fn Project. Oracle announced the new services at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, taking place this week in Seattle.

The new offering “combines the cloud activity that we’ve been working on with a lot of activity that has been going on with our Linux framework,” said Bob Quillin, Oracle vice president of developer relations, in an interview with InApps Technology.

The result is a “bi-directional portability” for applications that can run both in the cloud and behind the firewall. The Oracle Cloud Native Framework can be used for both the development of green-field cloud native applications, as well as traditional Java and database-driven applications.

The framework includes a number of technologies managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which focuses on supporting open source, cloud-agnostic infrastructure software. Oracle is a platinum member of the CNCF.

The framework also incorporates a set of OCI services built on Kubernetes, Oracle’s infrastructure-as-a-service, and the Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE). These six new offerings include functionality in serverless, streaming, resource management, observability and monitoring, notifications, and event-driven computing.

With Oracle Functions, for instance, developers can easily deploy and execute function-based applications on a pay-per-use basis. Workloads can be moved to an in-house, or alternative-cloud deployment of the container-based Fn Project.

“If you’re using Fn currently, it is an easy ‘lift that’ and ‘move that’ into the cloud as a managed service, allowing you to access all the other underlying OCI services as part of an event-driven microservice architecture,” Quillin said.

Oracle is a sponsor of InApps Technology.

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