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Re:Pivotal launches serverless framework that works across c... by latchkey on Saturday December 08, 2018 @08:53PM (#18638753)
The point being that those VM can be distributed across multiple hosts for scalability and reliability. I'm sure that if you wanted to really package it all up into a single VM, you could... but that wouldn't make much sense when you're building an onpremis deployment cloud.
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Re:Pivotal launches serverless framework that works across c... by twic on Sunday December 09, 2018 @07:31AM (#18640568)
No, the ten VMs are not there for scalability or reliability, they're there because there are ten teams building the essential components of Cloud Foundry, and the BOSH model is that each component gets its own VM.

You could squeeze them onto one VM, but that would require that CF teams cooperate on manifests. Inconceivable!

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Re:Pivotal launches serverless framework that works across c... by latchkey on Sunday December 09, 2018 @07:50PM (#18644355)
Maybe you could fathom that the BOSH model is designed the way it is, for scalability and reliability purposes.

The CF team is a bunch of Pivots... they cooperate quite well and probably better than most other teams, especially since they rotate across projects fairly often. Disclosure, I worked on CF in the early days, on a number of teams.

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