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Nigel Poulton
Nigel Poulton
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Nigel Poulton

Nigel Poulton is a cloud-native subject matter expert who spends his life creating books and training videos on the latest cloud technologies. He is the author of best-selling books on Docker and Kubernetes and the most popular online training videos on the same topic. He is a Docker Captain. Prior to this, Nigel has held various infrastructure roles for large enterprises. When he is not playing with technology, he is dreaming about it. When he is not dreaming about it, he is reading and watching sci-fi. He wishes he lived in the future so he could explore spacetime, the universe, and tons of other mind-blowing stuff. He likes cars, football (soccer), and food. He has a fabulous wife and three children.
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Virtualisation

In the distant past we deployed one application per physical server. This was a huge waste of physical resources and company capital. It also delayed the rollout of applications while physical servers were procured, racked, patched into the network, and had an operating system installed.

Virtualisation technologies like VMware came along and opened the door for us to run multiple applications on a single physical server. This meant we didn’t have to buy a new server for every new app, we could deploy apps very quickly to virtual machines on existing servers and avoid all of the following:

  • No more waiting for finance to approve server purchases
  • No more waiting for the datacenter team to rack and cable servers
  • No more waiting for the network team to authorise servers on the network
  • No more waiting for sysadmins to install operating systems

Almost immediately we went from wasting money on over-powered physical servers that took ages to purchase and install...

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Published in: Jun 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835080399

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Nigel Poulton

Nigel Poulton is a cloud-native subject matter expert who spends his life creating books and training videos on the latest cloud technologies. He is the author of best-selling books on Docker and Kubernetes and the most popular online training videos on the same topic. He is a Docker Captain. Prior to this, Nigel has held various infrastructure roles for large enterprises. When he is not playing with technology, he is dreaming about it. When he is not dreaming about it, he is reading and watching sci-fi. He wishes he lived in the future so he could explore spacetime, the universe, and tons of other mind-blowing stuff. He likes cars, football (soccer), and food. He has a fabulous wife and three children.
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