1 Scope

This document provides a description of a set of common technologies and techniques used in conjunction with cloud computing. These include:

• virtual machines (VMs) and hypervisors;

• containers and container management systems (CMSs);

• serverless computing;

• microservices architecture;

• automation;

• platform as a service systems and architecture;

• storage services;

• security, scalability and networking as applied to the above cloud computing technologies.