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We clone a running VM in 2 seconds (2022)

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169 points hunvreus | 3 comments | 08 Apr 25 14:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.638s | source
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pragma_x ◴[11 Apr 25 14:31 UTC] No.43654222[source]▶
I'm starting to see a pattern here. This describes a technology that rapidly deploys "VM" instances in the cloud which support things like Lambda and single-process containers. At what point do we scale this all back to a more rudimentary OS that provides security and process management across multiple physical machines? Or is there already a Linux distro that does this?

I ask because watching cloud providers like AWS slowly reinvent mainframes just seems like the painful way around.

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1. no_wizard ◴[11 Apr 25 14:35 UTC] No.43654263[source]▶
EDIT: leaving the answer, but I simply misinterpreted what they meant. This isn't the same thing

BSD has had jails for a long time, which let you achieve isolation on a system in this manner, or at least close to it.

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2. hedora ◴[11 Apr 25 15:18 UTC] No.43654811[source]▶
They’re missing multi-machine orchestration: Run thousands of jails on these dozen machines. Don’t bother me with the details at runtime.

They are also missing an ergonomic tool like dockerfiles. The following file, plus a cli tool for “run N copies on my M machines” should be enough to run bsd in prod, and it is not:

“FROM openbsd:latest ; CMD pkg -i apache ; echo “apache=enabled >> /etc/rc.defaults ; COPY public_html /var/www/ ; CMD init”

I don’t think writing the tooling would be that difficult, but it was missing the last time I looked.

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3. no_wizard ◴[11 Apr 25 15:46 UTC] No.43655175[source]▶
I think I may have simply misinterpreted what you meant. You're right, its not Dockerfile-esque easy