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Re:Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azu... by shaklee3 on Monday July 01, 2019 @09:12AM (#20324908)
Which orchestrator are you referring to? System Center in no way competes with kubernetes since it's lacking 90% of the features. Maybe I'm bad at googling, but I can't find what you're referring to.

Edit: I see the one you're referring to in that link, but again, it's not at all a comparison with kubernetes. It's easy at face value to say this one is better, but it's missing the point of kubernetes, which is extensibility, following standards, etc.

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Re:Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azu... by sciurus on Monday July 01, 2019 @09:36AM (#20325102)
They linked it. Service Fabric.

> Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform for packaging, deploying, and managing stateless and stateful distributed applications and containers at large scale.

https://github.com/Microsoft/service-fabric

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Re:Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azu... by GordonS on Monday July 01, 2019 @12:55PM (#20327292)
If you Google it you'll find several comparisons to k8s and others.

I looked into this a while back, and Service Fabric was a clear winner over k8s, and resource use was a fraction of k8s too.

But, I felt it needed to gain community traction before I could commit to using it - knowing my luck, I'd build something and Microsoft would abandon it because k8s...

Kind of a chicken and egg problem, which is a shame really.

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Re:Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azu... by shaklee3 on Monday July 01, 2019 @10:23PM (#20331595)
No, it was a clear winner for your use case. It's missing a significant amount of features from k8s, though, and if you don't need those, then great. But don't pretend they're comparable.

I think it's more fair to say the suit different use cases (an MS person on HN explicitly said this last year), rather than competing.

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Re:Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azu... by GordonS on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @11:32AM (#20336098)
As I remember it, it was a clear winner with no caveats. But my memory is shit, so there is that.

What features do you believe it's missing?

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Re:Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azu... by shaklee3 on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @09:49PM (#20340927)
Custom scheduler, a declarative API, the estimated of custom resources, many different filesystems natively supported, etc
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Re:Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azu... by GordonS on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @03:21PM (#20347726)
By "scheduler", do you mean as in "decides which nodes to run on"?

You can build Service Fabric manifests with XML.

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Re:Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azu... by shaklee3 on Thursday July 04, 2019 @01:24PM (#20356243)
Yes, but from what I can tell in their documentation you cannot make the same level of decisions that you can with kubernetes.
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Re:Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azu... by oldmanhorton on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:36AM (#20326403)
RE your edit, Service Fabric came out well before any standards existed.
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Re:Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azu... by cc81 on Monday July 01, 2019 @12:29PM (#20326982)
>following standards

What standards?

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Re:Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azu... by shaklee3 on Monday July 01, 2019 @10:19PM (#20331580)
CNI, CSI, OCI
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