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Is it also automatically replicated to a distributed storage pool so that it is mirrored to all of your other containers? Even better, it uses a distributed ob

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Is it also automatically replicated to a distributed storage pool so that it is mirrored to all of your other containers? Even better, it uses a distributed object store backed by ZFS called "Manta". Do you have any more questions? Meanwhile, you are very persistent at stonewalling my original question: why the insistence on using Docker?

cyphar 10y ago
> why the insistence on using Docker? I answered this in a cousin comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12164793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12164793 > distributed object store backed by ZFS called "Manta". a) Is this the default for SmartOS installs, and is this how containers work by default on SmartOS? Is the method of setting this up seamelss? b) Can you self host Manta. c) What are you even arguing about, you're just pointing at an cloud service and declaring victory. You might want to elaborate a bit more. > Do you have any more questions? Yes. Apart from the fact that I could just use S3 to achieve the exact same thing, and the fact that you might not be able to store things as pure objects (since you can't do partial writes, etc etc) do you not see that as dodging the original point? Do zones provide a seamless way of mounting a particular set of manta objects into a container so that you can actually store secrets inside manta without also storing your credentials everywhere? Also, out of interest, has Joyent liberated for Manta (I know that SmartDataCenter is free software, but I haven't checked if Manta is). There are a few other things that GNU/Linux containers have that I think SmartOS Zones don't. Can you start application containers, or is the only mode for Zones a "boot" process with an init daemon? Also out of interest, do you have the concept of rootless zones -- zones entirely created by an unprivileged user?

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cyphar 10y ago

> why the insistence on using Docker? I answered this in a cousin comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12164793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12164793 > distributed object store backed by ZFS called "Manta". a) Is this the default for SmartOS installs, and is this how containers work by default on SmartOS? Is the method of setting this up seamelss? b) Can you self host Manta. c) What are you even arguing about, you're just pointing at an cloud service and declaring victory. You might want to elaborate a bit more. > Do you have any more questions? Yes. Apart from the fact that I could just use S3 to achieve the exact same thing, and the fact that you might not be able to store things as pure objects (since you can't do partial writes, etc etc) do you not see that as dodging the original point? Do zones provide a seamless way of mounting a particular set of manta objects into a container so that you can actually store secrets inside manta without also storing your credentials everywhere? Also, out of interest, has Joyent liberated for Manta (I know that SmartDataCenter is free software, but I haven't checked if Manta is). There are a few other things that GNU/Linux containers have that I think SmartOS Zones don't. Can you start application containers, or is the only mode for Zones a "boot" process with an init daemon? Also out of interest, do you have the concept of rootless zones -- zones entirely created by an unprivileged user?