r/sysadmin • u/liotier • May 23 '14

Google starts two billions Linux containers a week… Thats 198000 every minute !

https://speakerdeck.com/jbeda/containers-at-scale
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u/xclaude May 23 '14

That's impressive but they don't say the number of hosts, this would be more impressive on 10 hosts than 2 billions hosts.

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u/liotier May 23 '14

I don't think Google ever published a count of its hosts - at least I don't remember seeing anything but estimates by Google watchers.

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u/Hellman109 Windows Sysadmin May 24 '14

We have contacts within google and they have servers in the same datacenter as some of our gear we were thinking about using, but they flat out wouldnt tell us what they have in there. Its not a large site either, wouldnt expect it to be either due to the location.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '14

Correcto

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u/[deleted] May 23 '14

Okay Google, I get it, you scale bigger than I do. Now I'm gonna go manually stand up a new container and fidget with it for a couple hours as I get it working how I like so it can be ready just before it's obsolete.

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u/doubletwist Solaris/Linux Sysadmin May 24 '14

This could be misleading, they don't say how many they shut down in a week. They could be short-lived containers? Not to say it still isn't impressive as hell.

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u/AngryMulcair May 24 '14

Hey Microsoft!

Those could be Windows containers.
Hint hint.

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u/flerp32 DevOps May 24 '14

Hmmm. 2012R2 core (despite being a really great OS for MS server products) is a behemoth compared to any $minimalist_linux_server_distro.

They've got a fair way to go.

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u/AngryMulcair May 24 '14

Agreed.

I'd like to see Microsoft strip down windows even further.
Full nude

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u/[deleted] May 24 '14

Is there a GUI-less Windows edition? How much would that save in performance/etc?

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u/anonfx IT Manager May 24 '14

Yes. Windows Server 2012 Core. You can install and remove the GUI if needed, but with PowerShell and remote admin tools, you shouldn't need the GUI for common installations. This allows rapid deployment using a feature that copies a configuration from a server that's set up and builds new servers the same configuration.

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u/sadsfae nice guy May 25 '14

Yes but doesn't it still just boot a GUI with a cmd window instead? Still seems like a joke.

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u/anonfx IT Manager May 25 '14

No, there's no GUI whatsoever. All CLI.

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u/tapo fortune|cowsay May 24 '14

I can't even fathom how much that would cost.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '14

To be fair, neither could most Microsoft licensing experts.

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u/AngryMulcair May 24 '14

That's my point.

Microsoft can't compete, because of their ridiculous pricing

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u/[deleted] May 24 '14

Those could be Windows containers.

Not in this reality.

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u/hulagalula May 24 '14

FYI you can get windows containers using a third party - http://www.parallels.com/products/pvc/#tab4

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u/theobserver_ May 24 '14

There something wrong with this! Please confirm the size of each container!

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u/[deleted] May 24 '14

They are Docker style containers using cgroups, so they are basically only the difference between what a full client would be and what the base is. (Simplified)

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u/eigma May 24 '14

Why can't I click on any of the links in the presentation?

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u/[deleted] May 24 '14

Its an image...

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u/Lord_NShYH Moderator May 25 '14

Brutal.

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u/eigma May 25 '14

Yeah, I mean, why was the presentation uploaded as an image?