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This is where I believe we should have invested our efforts as an industry: making VMs faster, not designing and adopting containers. If we can get VMs to laun
by movedx 6y ago
This is where I believe we should have invested our efforts as an industry: making VMs faster, not designing and adopting containers.
If we can get VMs to launch even remotely as fast as containers, that possibly means the end of containers due to VMs offering far superior isolation.
- tptacek 6y agoI probably agree about container runtimes, but containers as a specification for a preconfigured unit of compute have lots of value outside the runtimes. We don't use namespaced containers at all at Fly.io, and run everything inside of jailed Firecrackers. But we get enormous value out of container tooling, and the most common and simplest way of deploying something to Fly is simply to have our tooling push a Docker image over to Fly's repo. I think containers have been largely a force for good. They're not as much a force for good as some might claim, but that's a different argument than that they were a waste of time.