We have recently announced the full integration of Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator with Parallels Cloud Server virtualization. This is really exciting news. Today I want to answer some questions about container technology, but first call out two things it allows us to do:
- Integrate with Parallels container technology
- Use container technology to simplify day-to-day tasks for running cloud infrastructures
On to a few questions.
What is a container?
Before I discuss why I think containers offer such an advantage to the service provider, I want to define in my opinion, what is a container.
- It’s a way to encapsulate services that share the same physical/virtual host but do it so these can be in isolation from one another.
- It creates an abstraction layer for disk, network and compute which removes all previous knowledge of where the container was hosted.
- Depending on the technology underneath, containers offer a very minimal overhead in performance and resource utilization.
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