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Chocolatey is a package manager similar to Linux apt and yum to create, update, distribute and remove software packages in a centralized and automated manner.

Two are the platforms at its basis: NuGet and Windows PowerShell. The former is a .NET package manager on its turn, and the former is the well-known integrated shell of the Microsoft Windows world. Available both as a command line tool and with a GUI, Chocolatey is an open source project with three licensing models: free, Pro and Business, with the additional MSP and Architect plans for specific uses.

In the context of  IT infrastructures, the term (server) consolidation describes a situation where a physical server runs one or more software server applications as multiple instances. This way, computational resources can be shared more effectively between different software applications.
A typical example of consolidation is the P2V conversion of physical environments on hosts with hypervisors.

The term Microkernel indicates a certain code (or software) that maintains the least number of functions and instructions to implement an operating system. A microkernel must be able to handle basic mechanisms of the system, thus having a flexible base to build the entire operating system upon.

The term monolithic kernel refers to that part of the operating system that manages a complete access to I/O devices, memory, hardware interrupts and CPU stack. This type of kernel tends to be larger than other typologies, because it integrates many functions at the same level.
A monolithic kernel is at the basis of operating systems like Unix, Linux, macOS and DOS.