I find these to be pretty weasel words: Is Triton open source?

Yes. Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure is the commercial offering built on the top of the open-source SmartDataCenter cloud infrastructure management platform. In addition to the open source components, Triton includes support, a DevOps portal, and intellectual property indemnification only available to commercial customers.

In more plain English, "Yes. Triton is open source just like Mac OS X"

https://www.joyent.com/developers/triton-faq#os

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

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 quite fully baked yet. That's not really a huge issue since it's still a preview, I think?

Can someone explain this in words that a time traveller from 2010 would understand?

Joyent has solved some really hard problems to make this work. I was lucky enough to get the chance to sit down with Bryan last week and talk with him about what this took. It's essentially reimplementing Linux on top of Illumnos, which is no tiny feat.

There are still messy hurdles to running Docker in production, but it's clear that Joyent has really tried to make something awesome here.

As someone who works deeply in the future-container space, I applaud folks who are taking us deeper down the rabbit hole. I think it's clear that this whole 'back-to-the-future' isolation technology is really cool stuff. Jails/zones/containers have been around forever and I think it's great that we're finally taking advantage of this technology.

Edit: at Terminal.com, we want people to push Linux forward, and this is a great example of taking Linux to new and intriguing heights. I did not think we would have Linux on Illumnos in quite this way in 2015 and it's delightful to see. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants and it's great to reach new vistas.

Here's the signup link for Joyent's hosted container service: https://www.joyent.com/lp/preview.

We're seeing the initial explosion of the microservices ecosystem right now. I've been spending most of my time over the last few years thinking about trusted decentralized infrastructure and have decided that microservices, including hosted ones, could be one possible solution for instantiating trust as a proper 'knob' of the cloud. This Intracloud, if I'm allowed to use a new buzz term, will be smeared across 100s (1000s?) of datacenters world-wide. Have a high-trust use-case? Run it in a German or Dutch datacenter. Have a high-efficiency use case? Run it on a friend's cluster for free.

I believe in this idea of the 'trust knob' enough that I sought out a job with the folks at https://giantswarm.io/, where I am now a dev evangelist. We are a German hosted microservices stack which provides a Docker platform. Alpha signup is here: https://giantswarm.io/request-invite/. Demo of it in action here: https://github.com/kordless/swarm-ngrok#ngrokn-giant-swarm

I also hacked together a SF Microservices meetup last Friday: http://www.meetup.com/SF-Microservices/. 139 people have already joined. Would like some feedback for content! Planning on mid-April for the first event.

I'm excited to see what happens with this market in the next 6 months!

    > When Docker first rocketed

"You can run your Docker containers across entire data centers without ever creating a "cluster" as other IaaS providers would have you do."

This is a little unclear. I get that you don't have to create a "cluster" because you're going to use the API to launch containers on existing dedicated hardware, but how is that a WIN for your finance team? I guess I'm missing something.. but wouldn't you have to already have systems online that you're paying for that these containers can be launched on?

From: https://www.joyent.com/blog/docker-bake-off-aws-vs-joyent

Very cool. Is the next step integration with Manta so you can specify an environment of Linux executables to map over your data?

Didn't see the actual repo linked: https://github.com/joyent/sdc-docker

"A Docker Engine for SmartDataCenter, where the whole DC is exposed as a single docker host. The Docker remote API is served from a 'docker' core SDC zone (built from this repo). ... Disclaimer: This is still very much alpha. Use at your own risk!"

Is there any pricing information for Triton yet?

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...

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?

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.

Excited to see this. Congrats to the team on the release!

Nice!

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.

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% of their SmartOS code comes from, until Oracle closed their code in 2010.