Server Virtualisation

Question 1

What cloud vendors have you used?

Answer 1

AWS

Question 2

What virtualisation technologies have you used?

Answer 2

Virtualbox, cloud, a bit of containers.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

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

Question 4

How do containers differ from virtualisation?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What do you think the future of virtualisation is?

Answer 5

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