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Cloudflarecompute

Containers

Cloudflare Containers runs containerized workloads under control of Workers for software that needs a full process, custom runtime, or longer-lived execution.

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Major features

Lifecycle APIlifecycle
Image registryimages
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Typical architecture

A Worker acts as the control plane, starts or routes to a container instance, and persists results in platform storage.

Common use cases

  • Media and document processing
  • Custom runtime workloads
  • On-demand compute coordinated by Workers

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