Everything, and I mean everything is either on the “cloud”, moving to the “cloud”, or promoting the entire concept- even if it has nothing to do with it. As evidenced by Kodos (from way back when the Simpsons was still watchable):

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I’ve touched on virtualization a few posts ago, so I won’t go on about the means or implementations here.

The OS movement has so many options available to make virtualized systems at the press of a few buttons. There is OVZ and LXC for Linux, KVM for Linux, NetBSD, and Solaris/IlluminOS/SmartOS, and now, OSV comes up with _an entirely different design. This is a new introduction to the party, based on FreeBSD.

It’s already setup to run on EC2, GCE, or even your current machine. as evidenced here, it’s incredibly fast to create an instance, and the most commonly used HTTP/2 development tools are already setup as containers.

I’ve only played with this for a few hours, but it seems to foot the bill for many purposes:

• No overly complex zone setup, which is what keeps many new developers shy away from SmartOS- it has a simple REST API.
• ZFS support from the get-go. No need to muddle around with the 40,960 different filesystems available for Linux. ZFS it is!
• Small Footprint- I did a simple task deployment, and it added about 20MB of itself to my entire task. That isn’t bad, considering that is the entire virtual machine!