Chapter 8
Using Infrastructure as a Service
IN THIS CHAPTER
Deconstructing cloud concepts
Discovering resource pools/cloud models and services
Evaluating the role of the data center
Finding out how the public cloud fits and when the private cloud shines
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the best known of the cloud computing environments available for deploying service and software. IaaS is the virtual delivery of computing capacity, storage, and networking services. On top of these computing resources, customers can install operating systems, create DevOps environments, and build applications. In essence, rather than buying and installing hardware in your own data center, IaaS allows companies to rent computing resources on an as-needed basis.
In this chapter, we provide an overview of IaaS, its capabilities, and different approaches that are emerging to support changing customer needs.
Understanding IaaS
As its name implies, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the foundational infrastructure cloud service. IaaS provisions compute, storage, and networking services through either ...
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