Application Design Practices

1. Embrace new patterns of application design made possible by pervasive cloud-based technology
2. Avoid reliance upon specific instances of infrastructure
3. Consider deployed instances of infrastructure to be immutable
4. Use the platform in the way it is intended to be used
5. Manage coupling by consolidating references to the platform
6. Leverage abstractions provided by cloud computing platforms
7. Define and maintain Infrastructure as Code
8. Utilize the 12-factor method for application design
9. Containerize workloads wherever possible
10. Containerized applications should be run in the Common Platform
11. Develop a platform Exit Strategy