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by jsolson 3659 days ago
> I understand that there currently isn't a target for Docker so that takes Google Cloud out of the equation.

Google Compute Engine runs a lot more than just Docker images. It allows you to run arbitrary x86 VMs, just like EC2. It is not based on Xen, however (it is a combination of KVM and a non-QEMU VMM about which I wish I could say a whole lot more, but I don't think we're prepared to do that just now).
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bogomipz 3659 days ago
Right I believe that GCE is docker but it runs in a KVM container, I'm not sure why they do that however. Maybe someone else can explain? My guess would be that its a hedge on container security.

However what they hand you is a docker container I believe so provided there's docker target for whatever rump kernel it should theoretically just work. No?

It sounds like you work on GCE?

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jsolson 3658 days ago
GCE is just plain old VMs, no Docker involved.

There's also GKE which is managed Kubernetes complete with Docker containers.

(And yes, I work on the virtual machine monitor backing GCE)

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