Despite all the hype, virtual machines are not likely to be fully substituted by containers in the future. Those are complementary technologies, not rivals – containers and virtual machines are often used in the same cloud infrastructure.
In the first article of this series, we explained that the existence of virtual instances like VPS is possible thanks to technology called virtualization. But how does virtualization itself work in detail? In the second part of Cloud Explained Series, we’re going to talk about how a virtual machine is connected to the hardware, what …
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A virtual private server (VPS) allows users to set up their own virtual machine without the need to pay for using the whole capacity of a bare metal server (i.e., vps hosting in a nutshell). Studying the technology behind a VPS is a good start towards understanding the cloud as a whole because VPS instances …
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