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Is there any further work going on to support AMD in the KVM driver? I remember the codebase having sat idle for a few years last time I checked...
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.
One of the best things that ever happened to glibc was Ulrich Drepper, far and away glibc's most talented developer, leaving. glibc is a better project for having multiple good people run it instead of one, brilliant, impossible-to-work-with developer in charge.
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…
I sorta feel like that gives him the right to credit or not credit Sun (and especially Oracle) as he sees fit.
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Would you quote the bits here, so I can clarify with the product side of the house? We have not and never will let anything jeopardize the continued security of any SDC deployments. SDC having update channels is under active development: 'As of sdcadm version 1.5.5 and the release-20150319, SmartDataCenter has preliminary support for update "channels". A "channel" is separate stream of built SDC components with diffe…
The check-marks at the end of the page here, which compares Joyent Triton to Open Source SmartDataCenter: https://www.joyent.com/private-cloud Maintenance and Upgrades Minor and major upgrades
All the information and technology is there in SDC. Without Joyent Support, it would require riding the change logs and announcements and taking it fully into your hands. https://github.com/joyent/sdc#community
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> sdc-docker (the tech behind this, Triton) basically lets you just keep deploying containers without any regard for the actual underlying machines (or EC2 instances, DO droplets, Linodes) that you are actually deploying to. It's like docker-machine + docker-swarm but all automatic and managed by guys on the other side of the curtain, so you can just write the checks and keep the Docker goodness flowing. Not sure I g…
I'm still fuzzy on this also, but it sounded like it would fill a very similar role as kubernetes except that they are claiming superior performance.
I feel like perhaps I'm the only one concerned about this: (Somehow, “SmartOS + LX-branded zones + SmartDataCenter + sdc-portolan + sdc-docker” was a bit of a mouthful.) Not only is it a mouthful, it means there is a much wider space for things to go wrong.
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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…
Emulations have been a Unix feature for a long time actually. NetBSD has had 64 bit Linux emulation for ages, for example, but its not very complete because no one has cared enough to implement more. For example Illumos is AFAIK the first system to emulate epoll. The Linux API is huge and historically the process has been just fixing stuff for a binary someone wants to run. It is very tedious work... I dont really se…
I've felt for a long time that with the right tooling, smartOS/Illumos would make an ideal Container OS. Glad to see that they're moving hard in this direction.
This looks like a very nice way to deploy containers. I see the per hour prices ( https://www.joyent.com/blog/expanded-container-service-previ... ) but is there any pricing on bandwidth? I imagine there will be eventually, right?