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The reason a new layer is being built is because people don't want vendor lock in and VM's aren't portable anymore. You can't take an AWS VM and fire it up on
by slackingoff2017 9y ago
The reason a new layer is being built is because people don't want vendor lock in and VM's aren't portable anymore.
You can't take an AWS VM and fire it up on DigitalOcean without trial by fire. VM's should be portable but they're not because cloud providers don't want them to be.
For a while everyone was locked into AWS but now that there's other options some companies want to hedge their bets, or even run parts of their workload locally.
Since the VM space is all proprietary now people are moving one level up and building a consistent environment above it. I fully expect docker to become proprietary in a couple years and the cycle will begin again.
- rsync 9y ago"You can't take an AWS VM and fire it up on DigitalOcean without trial by fire. VM's should be portable but they're not because cloud providers don't want them to be." You can't ? I have never used DO, but I have deployed linux and FreeBSD systems on EC2 and moving them to bare metal was just a tar command away ... you can even pipeline 'dd' over ssh if you want to be fancy ...
- fapjacks 9y agoYou could say that it's as easy as using 'rsync'...
- slackingoff2017 9y agoMy friend pointed out today that he can't see my comments on HN. I think we're both hellbanned, just letting you know.