Re:On Internal Engineering Practices at Amazon
by m0zg on Thursday March 28, 2019 @05:48AM
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That's not a "driver" in the traditional sense, meaning it doesn't talk to the actual hardware directly. It's just a bridge or iptables.
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Re:On Internal Engineering Practices at Amazon
by scott_s on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:34PM
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shrug It's additional software in the networking stack, and it has a performance penalty. I think it's fair to call it a "virtualization cost," since you're paying for the container's networking abstraction.