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Is that the same Eric Brewer from Inktomi?
Yes, that's him :)
An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform
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Re: An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform
#12"Everything at Google, from Search to Gmail, is packaged and run in a Linux container." Was this something which Google had previously disclosed? Seems a bit surprising to me.
Yeah -- I talked about it a couple of weeks ago at GlueCon. Also shared that we launch over 2 billion containers every week.
My slides from the talk: https://speakerdeck.com/jbeda/containers-at-scale PDF: http://slides.eightypercent.net/GlueCon%202014%20-%20Contain...
Re: An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform
#13I know Google runs at a huge scale, but isn't even for them 2 billion containers / week a LOT? I assume a lot of these only run for a really short time? Are containers the new scripts?
Re: An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform
#14I know Google runs at a huge scale, but isn't even for them 2 billion containers / week a LOT? I assume a lot of these only run for a really short time? Are containers the new scripts?
I can't give specifics but a lot of these are short lived. For example, if you launch a MapReduce it'll typically launch containers for each of the workers and then take them down when the MR is done.
This also doesn't speak to the number of long running containers. There are plenty that don't stop/start during the week I grabbed that number.
Re: An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform
#15I know Google runs at a huge scale, but isn't even for them 2 billion containers / week a LOT? I assume a lot of these only run for a really short time? Are containers the new scripts?
If docker images are fancy static binaries, then docker containers are fancy OS processes. Going through two billion OS PIDs in a week doesn't seem that hard.
Re: An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform
#16We are particularly excited about Kubernetes. We are taking the ideas for how we do cluster management at Google and creating an open source project to manage Docker containers. https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes
Slightly offtopic - I haven't used docker yet but can docker be used to run Ubuntu on GCE? That seems to be possible by using a ubuntu base image?
Yes, it is.
Re: An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform
#17We are particularly excited about Kubernetes. We are taking the ideas for how we do cluster management at Google and creating an open source project to manage Docker containers. https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes
Slightly offtopic - I haven't used docker yet but can docker be used to run Ubuntu on GCE? That seems to be possible by using a ubuntu base image?
Ubuntu can run directly on GCE. http://doit-intl.com/blog/2014/5/31/how-to-install-ubuntu-se...
Re: An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform
#18"Everything at Google, from Search to Gmail, is packaged and run in a Linux container." Was this something which Google had previously disclosed? Seems a bit surprising to me.
We've been talking about containers for years. I presented some of our problems with them back in 2011, and I know we've been talking about it before that. :)
Re: An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform
#19I know Google runs at a huge scale, but isn't even for them 2 billion containers / week a LOT? I assume a lot of these only run for a really short time? Are containers the new scripts?
If docker images are fancy static binaries, then docker containers are fancy OS processes. Going through two billion OS PIDs in a week doesn't seem that hard.
Still seems like a lot, 2 billion a week is over 3300 every second. Says a lot about the scale at which Google operates.
Re: An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform
#20"Everything at Google, from Search to Gmail, is packaged and run in a Linux container." Was this something which Google had previously disclosed? Seems a bit surprising to me.
Yeah -- I talked about it a couple of weeks ago at GlueCon. Also shared that we launch over 2 billion containers every week. My slides from the talk: https://speakerdeck.com/jbeda/containers-at-scale PDF: http://slides.eightypercent.net/GlueCon%202014%20-%20Contain...
Thanks for the link!