Simple, scalable, and global: Containers are coming to Cloudflare Workers in June 2025

It is almost the end of Developer Week and we haven’t talked about containers: until now. As some of you may know, we’ve been working on a container platform behind the scenes for some time.

In late June, we plan to release Containers in open beta, and today we’ll give you a sneak peek at what makes it unique.

Workers are the simplest way to ship software around the world with little overhead. But sometimes you need to do more. You might want to:

• Run user-generated code in any language

• Execute a CLI tool that needs a full Linux environment

• Use several gigabytes of memory or multiple CPU cores

• Port an existing application from AWS, GCP, or Azure without a major rewrite

Cloudflare Containers let you do all of that while being simple, scalable, and global.

Through a deep integration with Workers and an architecture built on Durable Objects, Workers can be your:

• API Gateway: Letting you control routing, authentication, caching, and rate-limiting before requests reach a container

• Service Mesh: Creating private connections between containers with a programmable routing layer

• Orchestrator: Allowing you to write custom scheduling, scaling, and health checking logic for your containers

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