Hi All, Can someone please advise if we can pause a running workload container . . .

Kubernetes
#1

Ankush Sharma:
Hi All,

Can someone please advise if we can pause a running workload container and create a pool for those containers which can help us to reduce the time to start a new container by already giving it all the network configuration.
@Mumshad Mannambeth@Mohamed Ayman @Vijin Palazhi @Tej_Singh_Rana

#2

chris resnik:
the only thing that is somehow similar to pausing a container is kubectl rollout pause but this does not what you want

#3

chris resnik:
what you’re trying to do is basically interfere with the automatisms built in deployment and service so I would not recommend what you are trying to do.

#4

chris resnik:
if your containers take too long to load, look into optimizing the image size or the resources used instead

#5

Ankush Sharma:
@chris resnik But as per this research paper it’s possible to do so by creating additional functionality of Pause Container Pool Manager (PCPM)
*Research paper:*Mohan, A., Sane, H., Doshi, K., Edupuganti, S., Nayak, N. and Sukhomlinov, V., 2019. Agile cold starts for scalable serverless. In 11th {USENIX} Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 19).

#6

Ankush Sharma:
Idea is to eradicate the cold start problem of serverless functions

#7

Ankush Sharma:
I am trying to understand if it’s really possible to do so