# Cloud vs Data Center
- Cloud is not synonymous with success
- Hidden costs
- Balance and scale
- Provisioning for the DC
1. VMware
2. KVM

# Load Balancing
- At the server level
- At the data link layer
- At the network (routing) layer
- LB Technology
- Configuring Nginx
- Configuring HAProxy
- Configuring AWS Elastic LB

# Autoscaling
- Pools (VMware Load Balancing -- RoundRobin or Least Connections)
- Through the cloud (AWS Example)
- Through the DC (VMware Example) (vRealize + NSX)
- Manually intervening (Monitoring, scripting, service accounts)

# Load Testing
- Point of load testing
- Locust (Python Framework)
- BlazeMeter (subscription)
- Siege (Linux package)

# Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- Ansible
- CloudFormation