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A cloud-native infrastructure must accommodate a large, scalable mix of service-oriented applications and their dependent components. These applications and components are generally microservices-based. The key to sustaining their operation is to have the right platform infrastructure and a sustainable management and control plane.
For an overview of the platform components, see the OpenShift Container Platform architecture diagram on the Red Hat OpenShift Documentation website.