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shared this link on another reply, but google moved away from gvisor to hypervisor for cloud run. It won't be long before they do for GKE as well

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-...

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It doesn’t look like the moved away from gVisor due to security reasons. “We were able to achieve these improvements because the second generation execution environment is based on a micro VM. This means that unlike the first generation execution environment, which uses gVisor, a container running in the second generation execution environment has access to a full Linux kernel.”

The reason you go with process isolation over VM isolation is performance. If you share a kernel, you share memory managers and pages, scheduler, limits, groups, etc. If you get better performance running VMs vs running processes, then what was even your isolation layer for?

But at the end of the day, there is a line in the sand around hypervisors vs proc/kernel isolation models. I challenge you to go to a financial or medical institute and tell their CTO "yeah, we have this super bullet proof shared-kernel-inproc isolation model"

The first question you'd get is "Why is this not just part of upstream linux?" Answer that question and realize why you should just use a hypervisor.

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