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> While PaaS has not become a reality for everyone... A telling aside. Much of what he wants already exists in Google App Engine (and probably in Elastic Beans
by nickbauman 11y ago
> While PaaS has not become a reality for everyone...
A telling aside. Much of what he wants already exists in Google App Engine (and probably in Elastic Beanstalk, too, but I haven't tried it) — sans the need to manage the underlying OS.
Interesting Google is going the other way with Managed VMs running on top of Kubernetes. Perhaps they will meet in the middle somewhere?
- w4tson 11y agoI thought Google was running containers in kubernetes? AFAIK you can install Kubs on VMs
- nickbauman 11y agoWe're both correct.
- kevinschumacher 11y ago"Managed VMs" is a service offering within Google App Engine that lets you use any runtime (e.g., Python, Node.js, Go, C) but get the benefits of the GAE PaaS auto-scaling, versioning, etc. It actually works by shipping a docker container to the Google Container Registry (privately scoped to your project), spinning up a "VM" that shows up in your Compute Engine instances list that you can then SSH into if you want (this is why you're both right; they call it Managed VMs, it shows up in your GCE instance list, but they literally are, I think, running your docker container, probably with Kubernetes under the hood).
- nickbauman 11y agoThis is exactly what's happening as I've seen it.