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_yy on Sept 24, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't expose the docker socket, even to a containe...

> Google runs a significant portion of its internal operations in a container infrastructure and has for quite a while.[1]

They use containers inside virtual machines. Virtualization for security, containers for deployment.

jkyle on Sept 24, 2015 [–]

I know from Joe Beda's talk [1] they run vm's inside containers for scenarios where they need a managed os. And that those containers run on bare metal. But I can't speak to the reverse not being an employee or authority on Google's internals.

1. https://speakerdeck.com/jbeda/containers-at-scale

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