Knowing your environment

No two enterprise environments are the same. Some businesses still rely heavily on bare-metal servers, whilst others now rely on one of a myriad of virtualization or cloud providers (either private or public). Knowing which environments are available to you is a key part of the decision-making process.

Let's explore the various environments and the relevant build strategies for each.

Deploying to bare-metal environments

Bare-metal environments are without a doubt the grandfather of all enterprise environments. Before the revolution in virtualization and then cloud technologies throughout the 21^st century, the only way to build an environment was on bare metal.

These days it is unusual to find...