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Is there any pricing information for Triton yet?
Pricing here: https://www.joyent.com/blog/expanded-container-service-previ...
This is running Linux binaries on Oracle Solaris (which they call SmartOS), and not the real thing that Oracle is still developing, but a fork from 2010 that is maintained by 1/10th of the developers it once had. https://www.openhub.net/p/illumos . This would have been pretty rad 10 years ago, when the world still cared about Solaris. On a minor note: the post doesn't credit Oracle or Solaris, from where more than 90…
1) it's cheaper (theoretically, due to performance savings from not dealing with hardware virtualization), and 2) it looks like a docker host
I honestly expected Docker Hub to expand into this kind of operation before anyone else, but Joyent, from out of nowhere, has done it instead. Why should anybody care that they're doing it with a Solaris-based kernel, Linux, on NetBSD, as MAME machines, VIC-20 cartridges, or with 1402 machine images and druidic spells?
To the user, it's just a magical world where your Docker host always expands to whatever size you need it to (and you of course get a bill for the usage).
The real test will be whether or not this is cost-competitive to deploying Docker swarms on other public cloud providers. If the performance and tenancy claims are as they claim (or even the same order of magnitude, which seems reasonable), and they're not insanely greedy with pricing, this could be the biggest tech since Linux itself.
Tldr. Triton lets you run your docker containers in the cloud without worrying about virtual machines or setting up your own paas. Signup here: https://www.joyent.com/lp/preview
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Isn't it an example of taking Solaris to new and intriguing heights? There is no actual Linux code in the implementation.
That's a great point, but I think the point of what Bryan has been doing is to make Linux work with Zones (and dtrace). That's a primitive that Joyent has wanted to upstream into the Linux kernel for a long time and has never been able to get the necessary consensus around it (similar to OpenVZ's troubles getting their work upstreamed). In short, this is sort of a hack to give you zones on Linux without needing to ge…
I dont really see it as zones in linux. More a gateway drug for non-Linux.
This stuff looks pretty fucking unreal. What's the catch? It looks like it solves so many problems with clustered container deployment. Exposing a whole datacenter as a single Docker host seems like the end-game to me.
Am I missing something? I'm a little low on sleep today.
edit: To answer my own question a little: I guess the docker-sdc isn't quite fully baked yet. That's not really a huge issue since it's still a preview, I think?
I saw the name and my desire to read it plummeted. The same person wrote http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun which led to one of the most talented developers of node core and libuv leaving the project for a while.
Uh, so I've never really heard of SmartOS or Joyent's SDC before now... This stuff looks pretty fucking unreal. What's the catch? It looks like it solves so many problems with clustered container deployment. Exposing a whole datacenter as a single Docker host seems like the end-game to me. Am I missing something? I'm a little low on sleep today. edit: To answer my own question a little: I guess the docker-sdc isn't q…
I saw the name and my desire to read it plummeted. The same person wrote http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun which led to one of the most talented developers of node core and libuv leaving the project for a while.