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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...
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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.
[1] http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00516ED2V01Y2...
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Ubuntu can run directly on GCE. http://doit-intl.com/blog/2014/5/31/how-to-install-ubuntu-se...
Wow, why is it so complicated? Can't you do it from the console?
The simpler solution is to use their ready-made Debian images, which can be easily configured via CLI or API.
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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...
Also Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has much worse performance than Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, so it's better to stick to 12.04 LTS for now.
In my opinion it's better to port to Debian or to run Ubuntu image inside container hosted on Debian, until they will have native Ubuntu support.
[1] http://gigaom.com/2014/04/02/google-launches-andromeda-a-sof...
[2] http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/enter-andr...
"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...
Did Google switch to containers in a year? Maybe that answer is in your slides? If so crazy...
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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...
I went to a talk on Omega on Box.com about a year ago. At that point Omega was still about managing Google's giant statically linked binaries. Did Google switch to containers in a year? Maybe that answer is in your slides? If so crazy...
"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.
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Ubuntu can run directly on GCE. http://doit-intl.com/blog/2014/5/31/how-to-install-ubuntu-se...
Note that some Google's Debian Wheezy images are specifically optimized for their Andromeda SDN [1], especially when they running on us-central1-b or europe-west1-a zones, where Andromeda is enabled [2]. Also Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has much worse performance than Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, so it's better to stick to 12.04 LTS for now. In my opinion it's better to port to Debian or to run Ubuntu image inside container hosted on Debi…
Citation needed.
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I went to a talk on Omega on Box.com about a year ago. At that point Omega was still about managing Google's giant statically linked binaries. Did Google switch to containers in a year? Maybe that answer is in your slides? If so crazy...
The statically linked binaries run inside the containers. Static linking gives you a certain kind of portability (no need for library dependencies on the machine.) The containers give you isolation, resource management, etc.
Containers are much more flexible that statically linked binaries. You could have multiple binaries in a container sharing a common set of dynamically linked files.
Fat binaries inside containers sounds a bit like the worst of both worlds...
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I went to a talk on Omega on Box.com about a year ago. At that point Omega was still about managing Google's giant statically linked binaries. Did Google switch to containers in a year? Maybe that answer is in your slides? If so crazy...
The statically linked binaries run inside the containers. Static linking gives you a certain kind of portability (no need for library dependencies on the machine.) The containers give you isolation, resource management, etc.