IBM Cloud Code Engine: The Easy Way to Run Your Code, Containers and Batch Jobs

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Sounds exactly like Kubernetes with all the vendor lock-in you desire.

There is an amount of lock-in with any Cloud workload though right? IAM, billing, support? If you are bought into containers (which quite a lot of people are) it doesn't seem like incredible lock-in from technology PoV when Fargate and Cloud Run exist?

Seems more like Cloud Run to me. A modest amount of vendor lock-in if you're only interested in running compute workloads, and the usual ton of vendor lock-in that is inherent to any effective cloud usage if you want to go all in with IBM Cloud.

It actually impresses me so far. I've got a soft spot for IBM Cloud given that its origin is creating a public cloud out of open source projects and giving back to them. Their serverless offerings so far have been lackluster though. IBM Cloud Functions, based on Apache OpenWhisk, which they created and open-sourced, has a weird programming model.

But this seems like Cloud Run except it also has support for Docker images on any registry (not just GCR) and can run batch jobs up to 2 hours long. I'm going to keep an eye on it.

You can send me an email if you want to chat with the people building the service.

Appreciate the offer, but I wouldn't know what to ask yet. I'm still pretty junior in the grand scheme of things. I plan to just keep an eye on how it develops.

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