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Re: Azure Container Instances

#41
post #18

This doesn't seem cheap >> £0.001 Core per second That works out at over £2500 for a single core running for a month. And thats without memory costs etc...

From further up in thread

> The core second price at the top is incorrect. The per-second prices for cores and GBs are the same: $0.0000125. We are getting that fixed now.

Re: Azure Container Instances

#42
post #18

This doesn't seem cheap >> £0.001 Core per second That works out at over £2500 for a single core running for a month. And thats without memory costs etc...

They replied above, the cost is incorrect on the site, it should be $0.0000125, which is $32/mo (~4¢/hour).

Re: Azure Container Instances

#43
What's really got me excited lately is the combination of Ansible (for dirty work) and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes/Rancher/etc (also, tools that go from one orchestrated host to many like dokku and flynn).

While I appreciate the competition from GCE and Azure, what I really want is a tool that will run in any one of their clouds, but offers the same ease-of-management, and lets me go from one cloud to another or to a private cloud without breaking a sweat. I want the competition to be 70% on price and 20% on added-management-value and 10% on bundled services.

Terraform is basically this tool, but I want an even easier interface, terraform still feels somewhat too specific to me -- I don't want to even have to write config or specify some "aws" adapter that will make my config work on some provider. I want instant, multi-cloud (possibly) heroku, using only the network, hard-drive-space, ram, and lxc "primitives".

Someone (maybe me if I ever find time) just needs to get to work making F/OSS versions of all the bundled tech (ex. blob storage, cloud function runners, dynamically configurable DNS resolvers, simple alerting, etc) that runs in a container, and then the question just becomes "where can I get the cheapest most performant VPS that will host my containers".

Re: Azure Container Instances

#44
post #18

This doesn't seem cheap >> £0.001 Core per second That works out at over £2500 for a single core running for a month. And thats without memory costs etc...

That is very likely a display issue and they round up way way too much in that table. In the Pricing Example they use $0.0000125 per Core, which would make it ~33$ for a month for a single core, and double that if you include 1 GB of memory.

Re: Azure Container Instances

#45
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like they have conflicting data on that page. Further down it quotes "$0.000013 for every Core-s used".

That number seems like a rounded version of the GB-seconds (0.0000125 => 1.3e-5)

You're right - if you look at the calculations further down the page the 0.0000125 number is quoted.

Re: Azure Container Instances

#46
post #37
post #14

Companies like Hyper [1] should be put on notice. This is a surprisingly unique product. AWS ECS and GKE both require some form of management of the underlying VM. A lot of that management is abstracted away, but not in the same way this is. That being said, pricing [2] seems odd. At $0.0000125/GB_Second and $0.001/Core_Second, lets say you want to replicate an Azure A3 instance (4core/7gb/$130). That would cost... o…

The core second price at the top is incorrect. The per-second prices for cores and GBs are the same: $0.0000125. We are getting that fixed now.

You also incorrectly use "GB-s" in the Core Duration calculation in the Pricing Example:

"30 Create Requests * 300 seconds * 1 Core * $0.0000125 / GB-s = $0.1125"

Re: Azure Container Instances

#47

What's really got me excited lately is the combination of Ansible (for dirty work) and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes/Rancher/etc (also, tools that go from one orchestrated host to many like dokku and flynn). While I appreciate the competition from GCE and Azure, what I really want is a tool that will run in any one of their clouds, but offers the same ease-of-management, and lets me go from one clou…

I hear what you're saying, but don't under-estimate the value of "someone else runs it and gives me an SLA", which is a large part of what public clouds are really selling. :)

Re: Azure Container Instances

#48

So, are we just now using “serverless” to just mean “dynamically scalable” the same way that “cloud” used to? Because, previously, “serverless” seemed to mean not needing to deal with anything lower-level infrastructure than function calls (that is, a higher level of abstraction than even a classical PaaS like GAE managed runtimes), while container hosting, dynamically scalable or not, is somewhere between classic Ia…

And both seems wrong to me. Serverless would be without server, not with an "intermittent" server. Serverless should design architectures without server processing per request (like jekyll compared to wordpress).

Agree, please don't mix this with serverless, ACI is definitely your server. Hyper Func or AWS Lambda is much closer.

Re: Azure Container Instances

#49
post #14

Companies like Hyper [1] should be put on notice. This is a surprisingly unique product. AWS ECS and GKE both require some form of management of the underlying VM. A lot of that management is abstracted away, but not in the same way this is. That being said, pricing [2] seems odd. At $0.0000125/GB_Second and $0.001/Core_Second, lets say you want to replicate an Azure A3 instance (4core/7gb/$130). That would cost... o…

I don't think that unique really applies here - You can do the same with Google app engine standard runtime, or custom runtime if you want to use your own dockerfile. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/

Last time I tried using GAE beta with custom Docker containers (±last year) it was an epic journey of pain and confusion. The docs are split-brain between standard and beta and the rapidly evolving APIs paired with equally rapid out of date (official) example projects is completely schizo. [edit: I should mention, though, I loved that they have those example projects at all! It was just frustrating to constantly be battling api obsolence in their projects.]

GAE is great, don't get me wrong. But it's so much more than just Dockerized app hosting, and it's not so great at doing just that. If hyper.sh has any half decent onboarding flow thought out, it should be a clear winner.

Re: Azure Container Instances

#50
post #46
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The core second price at the top is incorrect. The per-second prices for cores and GBs are the same: $0.0000125. We are getting that fixed now.

You also incorrectly use "GB-s" in the Core Duration calculation in the Pricing Example: "30 Create Requests * 300 seconds * 1 Core * $0.0000125 / GB-s = $0.1125"

Good catch - thanks.
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