The cloud is just the rebranding of timesharing, anyone that got that scars in mainframes, microcomputers and UNIX, can see lots of similarities with "Cloud Native".
As Sun used to put it, The Network is the Computer.
As Sun used to put it, The Network is the Computer.
From the point of view of cloud providers, standing up a cloud service is enormously complex, filled with interesting distributed computing problems, especially under scale, diverse tenancy (and the predators that attracts), diverse workloads, and creative consumers finding ways to use it that you hadn't considered.
It wasn't YAML, but was just as messy.