Docker CRIU Demo
tl;dr
An automated, annotated, interactive demo of live container migration using Virtualbox, Vagrant and ShutIt.
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CRIU?
CRIU is a technology designed to allow the checkpointing and restoration of programs in userspace in the Linux kernel.
Containerization is a natural fit for this, since in theory most of its dependencies are contained and thus easier to reason about.
Work is proceeding on this technology, and this demo gives a flavour of what’s possible. It’s based on a post Circle-CI recently published.
It shows:
- A container being checkpointed and restarted
- A container with state being checkpointed and restarted
- A container with state being moved from one VM to another
You can see it in action here, and the code is here.
I think this technology is a giant leap forward for Docker. The applications for this for testing, delivery and operations are immense.
Another recent demo involving live Quake migration is here.
Refs:
http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/07/how-did-quake-demo-from-dockercon-work.html
Great post, most informative, didn’t realise devops were into this.
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CRIU is still experimental, I wouldn’t call it mainstream devops yet.