Metal as a Service that allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. Based on a Type 2 Hypervisor on the road to Type 1 Bare Metal
Popular MaaS providers like AWS and Google Cloud do not use a type 2 hypervisor to run guest operating systems. They use Type 1 hypervisors like Xen Hypervisor-Citrix Project to give bare metal perfomance. This repo is the journey to building a MaaS that is based on a Type 1 Hypervisor Xen , and our first stop is a MaaS platform that is based on a Type 2 hypervisor (VirtualBox) just to get the concept straight.
Winterstore.Metal.Compute.mp4
Above starts with us showing existing instances that have Nginx installed on them. From there we go on to create a new instance called "Github".
Thirty six seconds pass by and we get the internal IP of the newly spinned up instance. We then test the ip on Chrome, to which we get no response since
there is nothing of ours installed on the server. We open Putty(SSH Client), paste the IP of the instance and log into the instance via SSH.
We install Nginx on the instance, and then go back to test out the IP on Chrome. To which we are greeted with the Nginx boiler plate template. Success!