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Infrastructure as Code Explained: Benefits, Types, and Tools

Altexsoft

Infrastructure on the whole is a combination of components required to support the operations of your application. It consists of hardware such as servers, data centers, desktop computers and software including operating systems, web servers, etc. Infrastructure as Code can help with that. How does Infrastructure as Code work?

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The Good and the Bad of Docker Containers

Altexsoft

These are different environments that use different operating systems with different requirements. With Docker, applications and their environments are virtualized and isolated from each other on a shared operating system of the host computer. The Docker daemon is a service that runs on your host operating system.

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What is container orchestration?

CircleCI

Containers make managing resources easier since they do not include operating system (OS) images. First released by HashiCorp in 2015, Nomad was initially designed to be a general orchestrator. However, a good load balancer solves the problem of traffic with ease. Efficient resource management. Cultural change.

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Five World-Changing Software Innovations

LeanEssays

Using the Google File System as a model, they spent 2004 working on a distributed file system for Nutch. The system abstracted a cluster of storage into a single file system running on commodity hardware, used relaxed consistency, and hid the complexity of load balancing and failure recovery from users.