Re:Containers Are Not the Future
by wmf on Thursday March 19, 2020 @04:35PM
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Yeah, I guess it depends on your goals. Some of the unikernel people talk about VMs even smaller/cheaper than a t3.nano that start faster than any cloud can start a VM. Clearly to run such a thing you would need your own orchestration layer. Maybe that's a niche within a niche though.
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Agreed.
I think for our general use case we are looking at people with needs that are using vms or containers today (eg: not necessarily those that want plaid speed boot-times). That's not really something we are currently optimizing for. For something like a database there would be no desire to spin up/down so fast. Also, many frameworks with heavy language vms such as JVM or ruby take a long time to boot regardless so trying to run those in a 5-10ms boot-time doesn't make a ton of sense.
Having said that, there most definitely are very very interesting projects like LightVM, http://cnp.neclab.eu/projects/lightvm/ that do target low latency and NFV would be a great use-case for projects like that.