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Containers are so hot right now. So hot that they've just copped their very own cloud outage. And not just an outage but an imperfectly fixed outage. The SNAFU in question befell Google's Container Engine, which on Friday afternoon West Coast time had trouble “ connecting to the metadata server”. The trouble continued for …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The Cloud...

    Somebody else's computers you have a no control over

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The Cloud

    A simple way of escalating simple failures into global service outages...

    1. returnofthemus

      Re: The Cloud

      This sort of thing never happens on AWS

  3. Anonymous South African Coward Bronze badge

    The Cloud

    Surefire way to lose 10 years of highly-critical company data in a few seconds really quick.

    Didn't happen to me or my company, but heard of others who had the misfortune of that happening to them during a rm -rf * or a route * to /dev/null session at one of our major ISP's hosting VM's.

    1. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

      Re: The Cloud

      That sounds more like 'The Fog' to me...

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