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lmctfy is the open source version of Google’s container stack, which provides Linux application containers.

14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2013-10-03 · latest 2024-12-02

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  1. …- Google originally was going to launch k8s far more borg-like, using https://github.com/google/lmctfy as the container engine. LMCTFY is the most direct part of Borg released to the outside world. It is the container engine of
    comment by GauntletWizard · 2024-12-02 · in Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
  2. Time for a https://github.com/google/lmctfy revival.
  3. …one). Although I would mention Google tried to have their own Docker but that didn't pan out ( https://github.com/google/lmctfy ) so they switched to Docker and had Kubernetes open-sourced. More historical details would have just made for…
    comment by random3 · 2017-08-02 · in Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos
  4. …g.org/book/error-handling.html#the-limit... In practice, I find a type like Google's util::StatusOr ( https://github.com/google/lmctfy/blob/master/util/task/statu... ) a lot easier to use (I've written >100kloc c++ using it). This uses a…
    comment by Inufu · 2017-05-07 · in My Struggles with Rust
  5. Google does publish https://github.com/google/lmctfy at least, though. Edit: did publish
  6. …logic, yes? Consider the many different errors Google handles and it's not always a dead failure... https://github.com/google/lmctfy/blob/master/util/task/codes... it's nice to be able to both return a value and an unambiguous exception…
  7. …times for this space. [1] http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/24-introduction-to-contain... [2] https://github.com/google/lmctfy [3] http://www.wired.com/2013/03/google-borg-twitter-mesos/all/ [4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZFMlO98Jkc
  8. > Google uses not Docker (that I know of) but containers for a lot of their development. https://github.com/google/lmctfy Interest in it seems to have died down.
    comment by ihsw · 2014-01-03 · in Docker on Linode
  9. > useful values for the container spec Are you referring to the container spec in the proto file? https://github.com/google/lmctfy/blob/master/include/lmctfy.... Which attributes are you having trouble setting a useful value for?
  10. One of the pieces of code that has a more general purpose: https://github.com/google/lmctfy/blob/master/util/task/codes... One thing I really like about working with Google software is that you can count on the same namespace of error…
  11. Also this can be very handy as a C library, so you can embed it: https://github.com/google/lmctfy/blob/master/include/lmctfy.... People naturally compare this to Docker but given that Google is a heavy-weight in that domain, and things…