For more than 2 decades, organizations have relied on virtualization technologies to deliver innovative applications and services that streamline operations, enhance communication, and promote new business opportunities. The introduction of virtual machines into datacenters helped IT teams efficiently use resources, improve flexibility, and optimize infrastructure performance. As public cloud resources became more accessible, virtualization platforms evolved to take advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness offered by new cloud computing models.
More recently, new technologies like Kubernetes have shifted to containers—rather than virtual machines—as the core building block of IT infrastructure. Just as virtual machines establish isolated operating systems on a single physical server, containers create isolated application execution environments within a single operating system.