Canonical's Vision for Cloud Native: One Kubernetes, Every Scale
The Problem with "Cloud Native" Today Most organizations don't have one Kubernetes environment — they have several. A team might prototype on a laptop, run CI/CD through a build pipeline, hand off to a DevOps layer for orchestration, and finally deploy to production infrastructure that could be a 50-node data center cluster or a single-board computer sitting on a factory floor. Each of these stages has traditionally demanded different tooling, different operational knowledge, and different Kubernetes distributions. Canonical's "Cloud Native All the Way" positioning tackles this head-on with a simple but powerful idea: the same Kubernetes distribution should carry you from a developer's laptop to planet-scale distributed infrastructure — without swapping tools along the way. The Pipeline: Develop → Build → DevOps → Deploy At the center of Canonical's model is a horizontal workflow with four stages: Develop — where code starts life, typically on a lo...
