(Azure Container Instance engineer here)
This looks very similar to what we launched with Azure Container Instances last summer.
The Azure Container Instances kubernetes connector is open source and available here:
This looks very similar to what we launched with Azure Container Instances last summer.
The Azure Container Instances kubernetes connector is open source and available here:
Perhaps Azure needs to work on marketing? Is there a legitimate reason Azure isn't getting more traction in the non-enterprise world? I mean that as a totally serious question, not in a dickish way. Is it because it has the Microsoft name attached to it or just because AWS has so much traction?
As always, full disclosure that I work at MSFT as well.
Yes on both counts.
Also, the perception is common that Microsoft = Windows Server, to a very high degree of bias. Thus, if you don't operate on that platform, you'd immediately disregard Azure. A lot more work is needed to convince non-Windows operations & developers to buy into Microsoft's offerings around Linux. Emphasis that that says nothing about the quality of existing offerings, rather, the issue is of perception. The perception is that Linux is and will always be a secondary concern with Microsoft; and potentially worse, skepticism over whether Microsoft will invest into and support Linux over the very long term. If one buy into that skepticism or doubts Microsoft's commitment to Linux, AWS is immediately a superior choice as a long-term platform bet.
Devs in my team can pretty much chose their favourite cloud to deploy things to. Everyone always picks AWS, it's just the easiest to navigate and feels like everything links together well.
I think the only things we use Azure for is the Directory, and Functions to run some PowerShell.
As AWS is the industry standard, I feel that a lot of people like to stick with what they know too.
The problems of support and network effects go two ways. People perceive that Azure favours Microsoft tech, and may not support other platforms as well, which may or may not be true. More definitely, the tools and libraries for non-Microsoft languages tend to support AWS as the cloud of choice by having more features and being more heavily-used and tested with AWS than GCP or Azure.
HN has strong biases towards things that are startup-targeted or individual hacker targeted: open, inexpensive or new and small, or ubiquitous. Kubernetes and AWS in general get a lot of play compared to Azure , GCP or VMware (or even OpenStack these days). Nothing wrong with that necessarily, just a cognitive bias of the up voters.
The OP is short on details anyways, does Fargate run on a tuned xen vm's or do they have linux servers under there (or maybe they're SmartOS ;) ).
Maybe I was doing something wrong, but my experience so far with ACI is that it consistently took about three to four minutes until a smallish container was ready for use.