3 ms·
These articles never mention the elephant in the room, AWS. How many containers are running on Elastic Beanstalk and ECS? I'd wager magnitudes more are runnin
by nzoschke 10y ago
These articles never mention the elephant in the room, AWS.
How many containers are running on Elastic Beanstalk and ECS?
I'd wager magnitudes more are running containers by reading the docs and clicking around than those that mastering the cutting edge challenges getting running on Mesos, Kube or Swarm.
Another blind spot is Heroku. Every day new businesses spin up containers with a 'git push Heroku master' and don't even know about it.
All these providers, platforms and tools have their place.
I simply don't think the "winning the war" talk is accurate or constructive.
Disclaimer: I worked on the container systems at Heroku and now manage 100s of production ECS clusters at Convox.
- colemickens 10y agoWhat "cutting edge challenges" are there to get running on Mesos/Kube/Swarm? Are you just referring to getting the cluster booted? There are just so many options for that these days. Just curious, I was skimming through ECS docs last night and it seems like some of the basic building blocks look very similar to their equivalent constructs in Kube/Nomad.
- nzoschke 10y agoAutomating VMs with Elastic Beanstalk and deploying to a platform like Heroku are effectively solved problems. Container orchestration brings in new challenges like operating a consensus database, managing data volumes and load balancing. And this is on top of VM management. Yes, ECS, Kube, Nomad are very similar. All relatively hard to use right now compared to their simpler ancestors. Here is more in depth info about the challenges of ECS: https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/ https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/