containers shouldn't necessarily be stateless; most existing codes don't know how or want to talk to services via RPC interfaces. In some sense, a mounted remote filesystem is just a standard API the OS provides you to access state in a convenient way that happens to be high performance, indexed, etc.
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containers shouldn't necessarily be stateless; most existing codes don't know how or want to talk to services via RPC interfaces. In some sense, a mounted remote filesystem is just a standard API the OS provides you to access state in a convenient way that happens to be high performance, indexed, etc.
Yeah, I think they are conflating stateless and ephemeral in this case.
You're totally right, I was mixing up stateless and ephemeral. My mistake and thanks for pointing it out!