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Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system

Under Plan 9, UNIX's everything is a file metaphor is extended via a pervasive network-centric filesystem

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs&oldid=962171034

​All programs that wish to provide services-as-files to other programs speak a unified protocol, called 9P. Compared to other systems, this reduces the number of custom programming interfaces. 9P is a generic, medium-agnostic, byte-oriented protocol that provides for messages delivered between a server and a client.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs&oldid=962171034

flexi, a 9p filesystem of containers

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a Fargate container is spawned, its file-system mounted

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spawning the image

mounting the remote file system locally

stopping the container

github.com/jecoz/flexi​

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