In the first chapter, we learned about the different types of cloud, which are private, public, and hybrid.
A private cloud is a type of cloud that is deployed for any organization for their internal use. A private cloud is intended to enable the organization to have a self-service, elastic, and scalable model of IT infrastructure and services.
Prior to the private cloud, organizations used to host their applications either on bare metal servers or in a virtualized environment. Bare metal or virtualized environments lacked self-service features; however, scaling and elasticity could be achieved, but with great expenses in terms of human operations.
Making the environment fault tolerant and decoupled was still a challenge. ...
