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by yencabulator 1373 days ago
> No, the most important reason to choose a VM instead of a reimplementation of the Linux ABI is long tail compatibility. You can’t realistically replicate and then keep up with every corner of the Linux kernel’s interface.

As far as we the public know, Google Cloud Run is based on gVisor, which emulates Linux system calls with userspace code. Seems to work great for the usual container workloads.