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> That's why cloud providers all use mini-VMs to run customer containers (e.g. AWS Fargate) or force the customer to manage their own VMs that run the container
by amclennon 1y ago
> That's why cloud providers all use mini-VMs to run customer containers (e.g. AWS Fargate) or force the customer to manage their own VMs that run the containers.
This is only partially true. Google's runtime (gvisor) does not share a kernel with the host machine, but still runs inside of a container.
- s_ting765 1y agoGoogle cloud dropped gVisor in favor of micro VMs. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-jobs-and-second-generation-execution-environment-ga https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-...
- carwyn 1y agoSecond generation moved away from gVisor: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-jobs-and-second-generation-execution-environment-ga https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-...
- amclennon 1y agoAh, today I learned