Cloud-Native Design with 12 Factor App

There are many guidelines available for building a cloud-native application. One of the Industry accepted set of guidelines is 12 factors suggested on https://12factor.net/

In nutshell, here are the 12 factors to help your application build in a cloud native manner.

Codebase: One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys
Dependencies: Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies
Config: Store config in the environment
Backing services: Treat backing services as attached resources
Build, release, run: Strictly separate build and run stages
Processes: Execute the app as one or more stateless processes
Port binding: Export services via port binding
Concurrency: Scale-out via the process model
Disposability: Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful shutdown
Dev/prod parity: Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible
Logs: Treat logs as event streams
Admin processes: Run admin/management tasks as one-off processes

A good tutorial on practical usage of these 12 factors in your application