How do we do it?
'antlets' (our virtual servers) can be implemented as either VM’s or super-efficient Containers. Unlike docker or kubernetes, antsle lets you implement containers on the infrastructure level also (not just application level) so that it looks and feels like a full VM!
An antlet is essentially our concept of an 'instance' (AWS) or 'droplet' (DigitalOcean). It is a complete virtual server, that looks and feels like a (physical) server of its own.
The antsle difference
With antsle, you get to pick for each antlet how it is implemented: either as a VM (the *only* way to go on AWS, DO, OpenStack, ...) or using container technology based on LXC. The latter - while only possible for Linux antlets - saves big on resources and is what makes hosting 100+ antlets on one single antsle server possible.
Here is how we set up antsle from the ground up:
