Building a Future-Proof Cloud Infrastructure: A Unified Architecture for Network, Security, and Storage Services
by Silvano Gai
Chapter 3. Virtualization
The previous chapter discussed how network design has an impact on a distributed network service architecture, but it is nothing compared to the effect of virtualization techniques like virtual machines (VMs) and containers, which are crucial components of cloud infrastructures and modern data centers. VMs and containers are not synonymous, and they don’t have the same scope:
VMs provide machine virtualization and packaging that helps instantiate a machine on demand, with specified CPU, memory, disk, and network.
Containers provide application packaging and application runtime within a server.
In general, virtualization techniques allow for higher workload density, and when using microservices, to partition monolith ...
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