4 Reasons DevOps Engineers Still Rely on Hypervisors
DevOps teams looking for a safe, controlled environment that supports where and how engineers work best find that hypervisors are extremely useful.
Oct 14th, 2022 8:19am by
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Even as cloud native development takes off, many DevOps teams continue to rely on virtual machines (VMs) as part of their toolkit. There’s so much demand that license sales of popular VM products from Citrix, Microsoft, Oracle and VMware are predicted to grow nearly 20% annually through 2027.
Part of that growth is due to the way VMs and hypervisors help distributed DevOps teams overcome hurdles. For example, DevOps engineers often write services in small, manageable chunks of code. That means that the software’s complexity lies less in the coding and more in how those chunks of code are connected. It’s about ensuring that the new software will work as planned across a diverse set of operating systems and platforms — and clouds.