Re:AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure
by curiousDog on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:40PM
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Wow this looks like an exact copy of Azure Container Instances.
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Re:AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure
by azinman2 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:54PM
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Or just the general idea of a cloud provider making it easy to run containers. That’s not exactly a left-field idea.
Re:AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure
by weberc2 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @04:05PM
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Exactly this. I think this is pretty much the use case most people envision when they think about a container orchestration service (it was for me, anyway). My understanding is that EC2 and friends didn't deliver this on day 0 because efficient container isolation is hard.
Re:AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure
by pbecotte on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:09PM
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Which is an exact copy of the Joyent service from the year before :)
Re:AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure
by zenlikethat on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:23PM
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You mean Triton? I wouldn’t really call it an exact copy if so. There was a whole Linux syscall translation layer in there...
Re:AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure
by elcritch on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @02:09PM
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Copy in the sense of the product features, not the product implementation. Joyent has long provided a "run your container as a service" which IMHO is the best way for a small/medium to run container services. The whole create VM's to run containers creates a lot of extra work. Plus this could be great for teams doing data analysis, just spin up 100 containers for 30 seconds type of workloads.
The OP is short on details anyways, does Fargate run on a tuned xen vm's or do they have linux servers under there (or maybe they're SmartOS ;) ).