Figure 13-7 Edge and Fog Computing
APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT
METHODS
What is IT’s value to the business if you boil it down to
the simplest aspect? IT is charged with supporting and
maintaining applications that the business relies on. No
one builds a network first and then looks for applications
to stick on it. Instead, a network is built to connect
applications to employees and customers. The
importance of the application and its evolution have
driven many of the advances we have seen in cloud.
BARE-METAL APPLICATION
DEPLOYMENT
The traditional application stack, or bare-metal,
deployment is fairly well known. It’s how the vast
majority of applications have been deployed over the
past 40 years. As Figure 13-8 shows, one server is
devoted to the task of running a single application. This
one-to-one relationship means the application has access
to all of the resources the server has available to it. If you