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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

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Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

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What is container orchestration?

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Container technology enables organizations to efficiently develop cloud-native applications or to modernize legacy applications to take advantage of cloud services. Docker Swarm First introduced in 2014 by Docker, Docker Swarm is an orchestration engine that popularized the use of containers with developers.

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What is Kubernetes?

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Since Kubernetes emerged in 2014, it has become a popular solution for scaling, managing, and automating the deployments of containerized applications in distributed environments. This virtualization makes it possible to efficiently deploy and securely run a container independently of the hosting infrastructure.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

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What is Kubernetes? Orchestrating the world at the age of a first grader

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These packages, known as container images, are immutable and because they abstract the environment on which they run, they ’re portable and can be moved from one environment to another , regardless of what platform it’s running on, i.e. a physical or virtual machine, on-premise, data center , or in the public cloud. .

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What is Kubernetes? Orchestrating the world at the age of a first grader

Dynatrace

These packages, known as container images, are immutable and because they abstract the environment on which they run, they ’re portable and can be moved from one environment to another , regardless of what platform it’s running on, i.e. a physical or virtual machine, on-premise, data center , or in the public cloud. .

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