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Re:Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not... by dijit on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @03:21AM (#23464503)
Isn't that the benefit of cloud?

Maybe I'm spoiled by GCP and it's not the same in other providers; but I can have a brand new debian VM configured and operational in less than 10s (less the time that I run my own startup script).

Debian machines spawn with incredible speed; not much slower (if at all slower) than a new container.

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Re:Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not... by p_l on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:57AM (#23464969)
Spawning a bare bones VM is easy and fast, the problem is getting the applications there, which is where k8s shines.
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Re:Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not... by dijit on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:57AM (#23465214)
Maybe I'm spoiled then, it takes less than 2s to spin up my application on a new instance. :\

There are also many options for creating Debian based image files with all you need baked in.

I guess it depends very much on the application you have.

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Re:Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not... by p_l on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:36AM (#23465670)
A lot depends on whether "bake application into AMI, use ASG to scale and zero-downtime deploy" is applicable or cost effective.

I think I've been in total of one company where it was somewhat true, and even there we didn't do it.

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