Hosted Containers?
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Does anyone offer a hosted container service?
What I am thinking of is something like DO, or Vultr, but instead of launching a VM, you launch a container?
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Not that I know of. Big question would be... why do you want it? As a customer, that is an under the hood detail that I'm unclear why you would care about it. It's a VM to you, container or VM shouldn't be of concern if it does the job well.
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The reason that containers are not popular for hosting is because they share the kernel and have less security between them than VMs do. So hosted containers in a public system is not generally desired on either side of the fence. It means that kernel updates cause downtime and affect customers.
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Why not just use a PaaS provider?
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@stacksofplates said in Hosted Containers?:
Why not just use a PaaS provider?
Not completely the same, but in most cases would make more sense, I agree.
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@scottalanmiller said in Hosted Containers?:
@stacksofplates said in Hosted Containers?:
Why not just use a PaaS provider?
Not completely the same, but in most cases would make more sense, I agree.
Right. It would cover most cases I would think. And with prebuilt apps by a lot of providers it could be similar.
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@stacksofplates said in Hosted Containers?:
@scottalanmiller said in Hosted Containers?:
@stacksofplates said in Hosted Containers?:
Why not just use a PaaS provider?
Not completely the same, but in most cases would make more sense, I agree.
Right. It would cover most cases I would think. And with prebuilt apps by a lot of providers it could be similar.
And even lighter weight than containers.
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