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Re:Stateful Apps on Kubernetes: A quick primer by tayo42 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:59PM (#16973950)
How is colossus running in a container in borg? That's their network file system that makes running databases in containers possible?
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Re:Stateful Apps on Kubernetes: A quick primer by puzzle on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:08AM (#16973984)
There's a bootstrapping issue, of course, but that's how it works.

And it's even crazier than what you're picturing. What if I told you that Bigtable runs on top of Colossus, but Colossus itself stores metadata about files, including Bigtable's files, in... Bigtable? It's really turtles all the way down, the last of which is, luckily, Chubby.

Some of the details here: http://www.pdsw.org/pdsw-discs17/slides/PDSW-DISCS-Google-Ke...

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