Author Archives: Mike Nomitch
Author Archives: Mike Nomitch
As AI Large Language Models and harnesses like OpenCode and Claude Code become increasingly capable, we see more users kicking off sandboxed agents in response to chat messages, Kanban updates, vibe coding UIs, terminal sessions, GitHub comments, and more.
The sandbox is an important step beyond simple containers, because it gives you a few things:
Security: Any untrusted end user (or a rogue LLM) can run in the sandbox and not compromise the host machine or other sandboxes running alongside it. This is traditionally (but not always) accomplished with a microVM.
Speed: An end user should be able to pick up a new sandbox quickly and restore the state from a previously used one quickly.
Control: The trusted platform needs to be able to take actions within the untrusted domain of the sandbox. This might mean mounting files in the sandbox, or controlling which requests access it, or executing specific commands.
Today, we’re excited to add another key component of control to our Sandboxes and all Containers: outbound Workers. These are programmatic egress proxies that allow users running sandboxes to easily connect to different services, add observability, and, importantly for agents, add flexible Continue reading
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
Instead Continue reading