Server Virtualisation Flashcards

1
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What cloud vendors have you used?

A

AWS

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What virtualisation technologies have you used?

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Virtualbox, cloud, a bit of containers.

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3
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Can you explain at a high level the benefit of having virtualised environments?

A

Cost saving economy of mass, decreases the cost of experimentation, able to cope with surge times more cost effectively, better use of hardware.

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4
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How do containers differ from virtualisation?

A

Containers are shared on kernel and tap into the existing system calls of the OS.

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5
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What do you think the future of virtualisation is?

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Speculative, people are saying that lambdas with some brief state stored to some storage medium are the future.

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