Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G?

[Etienne-Victor Depasquale <edepa () ieee org>]

> Clearly to virtualize operating systems as long as your level of
> virtualization mainly in terms of security and resource consumption
> isolation & reservation is satisfactory is a much better and lighter
> option.

That pretty much sums up Intel's view.

To quote an Intel executive I was corresponding with:

"The purpose of the paper was to showcase how Communication Service
Providers can move to a more nimble and future proof microservices based
network architecture with cloud native functions, via container deployment
methodologies versus virtual machines.  The paper cites many benefits of
moving to a microservices architecture beyond whether it is done in a VM
environment or cloud native. We believe the 5G networks of the future will
benefit greatly by implementing such an approach to deploying new services."

The paper referred to is this one
<https://www.intel.in/content/www/in/en/communications/why-containers-and-cloud-native-functions-paper.html>
.

Cheers,

Etienne

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 6:23 PM Robert Raszuk <robert () raszuk net> wrote:

> I reason that Intel's implication is that virtualization is becoming
> > obsolete.
> > Would anyone care to let me know his thoughts on this prediction?
>
> Virtualization is not becoming obsolete ... quite reverse in fact in all
> types of deployments I can see around.
>
> The point is that VM provides hardware virtualization while kubernetes
> with containers virtualize OS apps and services are running on in
> isolation.
>
> Clearly to virtualize operating systems as long as your level of
> virtualization mainly in terms of security and resource consumption
> isolation & reservation is satisfactory is a much better and lighter
> option.
>
> Thx,
> R.


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