The best practices of cloud native infrastructure writ large should be applied to networking infrastructure in the small. When describing network infrastructure in a cloud native manner, the specific challenges for provisioning each OSI [1],[2],[3],[4],[5],[6] layer need to be addressed in order to minimize the usual toil associated with provisioning, deploying functionality into, and managing complex networks. Cloud native networking addresses provisioning the fabric at layers 1 (physical layer) [7] and some of layer 2 (data-link layer: physical & virtual layer 2 switches) [8],[9], and providing cloud native network functions (CNFs) that are the orchestrated implementation of layers 2 (data-link layer: data units (frames) organization, error detection, and flow control), 3 [10] (network layer [11], including data planes [12],[13] and control planes [14]), 4 (transport layer) [15],[16], and the applications layer(s) [17],[18] 5 (session layer) [19], 6 (presentation layer) [20], and 7 (application layer) [21].