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Digital Ocean Infrastructure
- Posted on October 18, 2023
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Asked by 0d46685ff370452cb0d5923fa4beeb
How Digital Ocean is doing virtualization in the background via hypervisor? How Digital Ocean is managing the VM’s and App platform?
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Hi there,
DigitalOcean primarily uses KVM as its hypervisor for virtualization. KVM is a part of the Linux kernel and allows the host machine to run multiple, isolated virtual environments, known as droplets in DigitalOcean’s terminology. Each Droplet behaves like a standalone server with its resources:
The App Platform on the other side, abstracts the underlying infrastructure, allowing developers to deploy code directly without managing the underlying servers. And under the hood DigitalOcean App Platform utilizes Kubernetes:
Hope that this helps!
Best,
Bobby