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Cloudflare Containers

Cloudflare Containers lets developers run containerized workloads on Cloudflare's edge network, integrated with Workers and Durable Objects.

Known aliases

  • Containers
  • Containers on Cloudflare

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

Cloudflare moves Container image and size choices from deploy time into application code

Cloudflare rebuilt Containers so code picks each sandbox's image and instance type at runtime, with median startup cut to 648ms in a ComputeSDK benchmark. A fresh Linux workspace per agent task becomes quick enough to wait for, on a figure Cloudflare itself reports.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption30
Hype gap+20
Incentives85
Confidence50
buildOne report1 publisher

Cloudflare Containers handed tenants reused disk blocks that could hold other customers' data

Cloudflare Containers let a paying tenant read up to 60KiB of another customer's leftover data from each reused 64KiB disk block. Cloudflare has zeroed new blocks and rebuilt pre-fix disks, so the risk still open is plaintext credentials stored there earlier.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives45
Confidence55
securityConfirmed2 publishers

Cloudflare Containers handed new tenants disk blocks still holding other customers' data

Cloudflare fixed a Containers flaw that let paying customers read other tenants' leftover disk data, found on 18 of 24 production tries. Sandboxes, the product it sells for running untrusted and AI-written code, was affected too.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 42%
Operator
Operator 48%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives55
Confidence70
buildOne report1 publisher

Cloudflare gives each Git branch its own Durable Objects and Containers

Worker Previews give a branch its own URL, configuration and state, and isolating the Durable Object namespace is what keeps a preview's writes away from the single instance that owns production's storage.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption18
Hype gap+20
Incentives85
Confidence56
buildOne report1 publisher

Cloudflare's connect(socket) handler makes the edge a termination point for arbitrary TCP

gRPC got the announcement slot, but underneath it is a raw inbound socket that a Worker can route in JavaScript. Full duplex only shows up once that socket gets passed down to a Durable Object and a Container.

Publishers:infoq.com

Reality

Evidence54
Adoption14
Hype gap+34
Incentives62
Confidence50