Docker vs Jail System Resources

[bigzaj]

How does the Docker implementation in SCALE utilize system resources? I thought jails scaled easier and had full access to system resources while Dockers had to have resource (e.g. cores / memory) explicitly allocated?

 

[morganL]

It uses Kubernetes.. K3s specifically right now.
There are "requests" and "limits" for each container

Resource Management for Pods and Containers

When you specify a Pod, you can optionally specify how much of each resource a container needs. The most common resources to specify are CPU and memory (RAM); there are others. When you specify the resource request for containers in a Pod, the kube-scheduler uses this information to decide which...

kubernetes.io

 

[Kris Moore]

How does the Docker implementation in SCALE utilize system resources? I thought jails scaled easier and had full access to system resources while Dockers had to have resource (e.g. cores / memory) explicitly allocated?

Docker containers (or K8's Pods) scale just as well as Jails. They have much finer grained controls over that scaling, and support a much wider set of feature than jails do.