Containers and cluster storage bring you really close to what Google's infrastructure looks like. Especially when the systems are fully fault-tolerant like Meso

Containers and cluster storage bring you really close to what Google's infrastructure looks like. Especially when the systems are fully fault-tolerant like Mesos and Ceph. One of the drawbacks of Ceph is that its filesystem is not ready for production yet, and you have to resort to block devices that can only accessed from one host at at time. At Quobyte (http://www.quobyte.com http://www.quobyte.com, disclaimer: I am one of the founders), we have a built a fully fault-tolerant distributed file system. This allows concurrent scalable shared access to file systems from any number of hosts. Think of a /data that is accessible from any host and can be mapped in any container. What I found pretty neat was that we could easily do a mysql HA setup on Mesos: put mysql in a container, use a directory on /quobyte for its data, and enable Quobyte's mandatory file locking. When you kill the container, or switch off/unplug its host, the container gets rescheduled and recovers from the shared file system.