Cloudflare has introduced a public beta of its container service that allows developers to deploy Docker containers on its extensive global network. This service is particularly useful for workloads that are challenging to handle on the existing serverless platform, Workers, such as media processing and data analysis. The architecture closely integrates with Durable Objects for stateful applications, allowing control over container lifecycles and parallel computing capabilities. This development enables users to run diverse applications, including those requiring specific environments or existing container images, positioning Cloudflare as a competitive force in cloud services.
Not only do Durable Objects allow you to have fine-grained control over the Container lifecycle, the whole Workers platform allows you to extend routing and scheduling behavior as you see fit. Workers provide programmable ingress logic from over 300 locations around the world.
Among workloads where Workers fall short, Containers can run user-generated code in any language, execute CLI tools that need a full Linux environment, or port applications from other providers without major rewrites.
Routing to containers is enabled using under the hood (...) Each Durable Object acts as a programmable sidecar that can proxy requests to the container and manages its lifecycle.
Cloudflare's new container service allows developers to run Docker containers for workloads difficult to support on the serverless computing platform Workers.
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