Virtualization and containerization platforms

With the spread of information technology (IT) in all spheres of life, the dependency and reliability on IT infrastructure have increased manifold. Now, IT runs so many critical and real-time businesses. This means that there can be zero or negligible downtime for maintenance or failure. Also, rapid real-time demands have grown. For example, during the holiday season, there’s a huge amount of traffic on online shopping websites. So, now, IT needs to be highly available, elastic, flexible, and quick. These were the reasons that motivated the creation of virtual platforms such as virtualization and containerization. For example, Barclays, a multinational financial firm based in the UK, was facing a hard time from competitors due to their slow pace of innovation and project deliveries. One of its major roadblocks was the time it took to provision new servers. So, they decided to use Red Hat OpenShift to containerize their application...