Run containers on bare metal already!

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as an engaging and informative explanation of why containers on VMs waste resources and hurt performance.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Bryan Cantrill

Topic

containers and virtualization

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• SmartOS's LX branded zones seem kind of cool to me, and may hit an interest point for you. Basically, SmartOS is an OpenSolaris variant where they use Solaris Zones for docker images, but they've implemented a Linux syscall table API so you can create Linux …

• I have run containers on bare metal and in Amazon. Performance can be noticeably slower in Amazon on machines with similar specifications. A detailed explanation why is in this informative video by Bryan Cantrill [VIDEO] . It is a talk about how layering containers on …

• Unikernels : hypervisor :: processes : traditional operating system Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill gave a great talk at Velocity NYC 2015 about the history of containers (going back to March 18, 1982 when Bill Joy added the chroot system call) and the problems of running …