Azure Container Instances

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Post by bdburns » Wed, Jul 26, 2017, 3:13 PM UTC

Azure Container Instances
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Re: Azure Container Instances

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Post by eoinmurray92 » Wed, Jul 26, 2017, 3:47 PM UTC

Pretty awesome this can be done in one command. At Kyso we deploy a lot of data-science images to GCP, it can be tricky.

Is the API support for this coming?

Re: Azure Container Instances

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Post by mankash666 » Wed, Jul 26, 2017, 3:48 PM UTC

If this works as advertised, it's awesome. It's like AWS lambda, without language restrictions, CPU or RAM throttling, etc. Truly serverless

Re: Azure Container Instances

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Post by sammorrowdrums » Wed, Jul 26, 2017, 3:50 PM UTC

Does anyone know what service discovery, network security policy and ability to add multiple redundant copies of the same service this offers?

I'm guessing it's powered heavily by kubernetes, so maybe that answers the question, but I'd be interested to know more about the details.

Re: Azure Container Instances

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Post by Ghostium » Wed, Jul 26, 2017, 3:50 PM UTC

"Each container deployed is securely isolated from other customers using proven virtualization technology. "

Does anybody know if they mentioned anywhere what they use? LXC or Jails? Or some homegrown stuff?

Re: Azure Container Instances

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Post by rattray » Wed, Jul 26, 2017, 3:50 PM UTC

Tldr:

> An Azure Container Instance is a single container that starts in seconds and is billed by the second. ACI offer highly versatile sizing, allowing you to select the exact amount of memory separate from the exact count of vCPUs...

    az container create -g aci_grp --name nginx --image library/nginx --ip-address public –cpu 2 --memory 10

There's also a k8s connector, promising faster spinup times:

https://github.com/azure/aci-connector-k8s

Re: Azure Container Instances

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Post by ybrah » Wed, Jul 26, 2017, 3:51 PM UTC

Lots of pains using Microsoft azure at my workplace. We always AWS when we're allowed, which isn't often enough.

Lots of weird issues.

Re: Azure Container Instances

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Post by rad_gruchalski » Wed, Jul 26, 2017, 3:52 PM UTC

sammorrowdrums wrote: post #4

Does anyone know what service discovery, network security policy and ability to add multiple redundant copies of the same service this offers? I'm guessing it's powered heavily by kubernetes, so maybe that answers the question, but I'd be interested to know more about the details.

Wasn't Microsoft heavily invested in Mesos / DCOS?

Re: Azure Container Instances

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Post by Swinx43 » Wed, Jul 26, 2017, 3:54 PM UTC

ybrah wrote: post #7

Lots of pains using Microsoft azure at my workplace. We always AWS when we're allowed, which isn't often enough. Lots of weird issues.

It might be worth mentioning what some of those issues are, otherwise it just sounds like FUD.

Re: Azure Container Instances

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Post by jzs » Wed, Jul 26, 2017, 3:55 PM UTC

While it sounds cool i'm a bit dismayed by the naming choice as ACI in my head is short for the Application Container Image format as used by CoreOS and appc.