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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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