> You do realize that there is virtually no overhead in running containers, right? That's the entire point of their existence.

No, I didn’t know running containers used “virtually no overhead.” It appears I can run millions of containers without any resource constraint? Is that some sort of cheat code?

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withinboredom 10 hours ago | parent [-]

The only resource constraints are physical. You can run millions of containers, but it is unlikely you have the physical resources to do meaningful work with them.

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lvl155 6 hours ago | parent [-]

So now you’re saying there are constraints? You just said there are no limits. You can run infinite containers. Why did you lie about this magic?

	▲	jonfk 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What withinboredom meant is that running processes in containers don't add overhead vs simply running them outside of them. That is mostly true because of the way that containers work in linux through cgroups and namespaces, which means that you would only be limited by what your hardware would already be able to run before running the processes in containers.